Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black perspective" in drawing up the plan. If black unemployment is to be reduced, the N.A.A.C.P. went on, the nation's economy must grow rapidly. Since that requires more energy, oil and gas prices should be allowed to rise so that companies would have more incentive to step up exploration and output...
...major parties do fail to find any new modus vivendi after Andreotti's expected resignation, the only option is early elections. The prospect, risky as it might be, did not bother many Christian Democrats as much as the step-by-inexorable-step Communist advance on power. But elections would doubtless be a trauma that neither Communist nor Christian Democrat would savor right away, and there are likely to be weeks of painful maneuvering and countermaneu-vering before they are willing to face that drastic ultimate step. In the meantime, the violent voices resounding through the streets of Italy...
...sometimes seems that the highest -and hardest-step in a diva's career is the one into retirement. Too many sopranos linger after their fortes have turned into shrieks. Determined to avoid that fate, Soprano Beverly Sills announced last week that she would retire in the fall of 1980. These days, even dropping out seems to require the same three-year advance planning as everything else in opera. But Sills is not retiring to write a book (she has done that already) or go on the talk shows (she has her own now). Instead, she will take...
...difficulty in recruitment lies in channeling efforts in directions that have a reasonable chance of turning up "ballpark" candidates. Harvard's minority recruitment program utilizes a variety of techniques, but its first step is a selection process, a winnowing out based on Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores...
...Search List is a preliminary step, Harvard's actual recruitment program has three components--alumni, staff and students--which Jewett describes as being "pretty balanced in importance." Of the three, only the student group works specifically on minority recruitment (although two part-time admissions staff members primarily work with the minority candidate). The alumni and staff efforts in minority recruitment are integrated into the general admissions program...