Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five helicopters flew over the area, occasionally whirring down to land on the baseball field outside the prison that the convicts share amiably with the local Little League team. Officials claimed they had sealed off a 10-sq.-mi. area, but other agents began taking the precautionary step of checking highways and airports in Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Kentucky...
...with a nationalized company, you can be sure that the state will somehow find a way to maintain the labor force." Dassault was talking about takeover by a left-wing government, should the Socialist-Communist opposition win the parliamentary election scheduled for next spring. Last week, however, a step toward nationalization came early, from a different direction. The government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced that it was taking a 34% participation in Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation (1976 sales: $1.2 billion) without compensating the company's two owners, Dassault and his 52-year...
...issuing a blanket pardon to all those who had peacefully refused to register for the draft or be inducted into the armed services during the Vietnam War. By granting the pardon, Carter hoped to bring America's tragic Vietnam experience to an end. Unfortunately, the pardon, while a step in the right direction, does not go nearly far enough...
...then Cambridge's fiery Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci got into the debate, and the fight was on. Some critics of the gene-splicing research argued that it could create new--and dangerous--organisms, while others said it marked the first major step toward genetic engineering, eliciting fears of modern-day Dr. Frankensteins...
...overturned a regional director's ruling and granted the right to hold a unionizing election under District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America. The workers, who began their organizing drive in 1974, almost saw it disintegrate on all too many occasions. The University doggedly opposed District 65 every step of the way for two and a half years, and mustered every ounce of the formidable legal talent at its disposal to stave off the union in the halls of the NLRB. Despite Harvard's recalcitrance, despite the reluctance of regional director Robert Fuchs to hear the case, despite Fuchs...