Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government Department has gotten a widespread reputation for tough grading--in part because of the outspoken stance of its chairman, Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, against creeping grade inflation--and last fall the department took a step to ease the burden on its concentrators. Mansfield wrote a cover letter to graduate schools explaining that Gov majors might have lower grades than the rest of the College, but that it wasn't necessarily their fault...
...ARTIST'S QUEST seems to be after either matter or mode; at any given time he searches for what to say or how to say it. Like a child just learning to walk, each artist progresses one step at a time; if he lives long enough, he may have time to shift weight, as it were, and take a second step, so that he ends up standing in a totally new place. Styles and subjects are sought and articulated in what appears continual progression, and successive small steps by artists suddenly are recognized as giant leaps...
...they talked for more than seven hours, and she did her best to assure the Prime Minister-an admirer of Fidel Castro-that U.S. policy toward Cuba was changing. Indeed, four days later the White House announced plans for a limited exchange of diplomats with Havana, a step toward resuming full relations...
...addition, the Northern countries pledged to step up assistance for the development of Third World agriculture, and to increase the financial resources of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in order to help poor countries meet their huge balance of payments deficits. A "decade of Africa" was designated, in which a substantial effort will be made to develop African economies, especially in transportation and communications...
After passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, federal courts responded sympathetically to lawsuits seeking an end to job discrimination in U.S. industry. The result has been measurable progress in the hiring and promotion of blacks, other minorities and women. Last week the Supreme Court took a step that seemed to brake the thrust of the past dozen-odd years. In a 7-to-2 decision, the court struck a blow for union seniority systems and weakened the basis for so-called past-discrimination suits. Through such suits minority-group workers have won retroactive seniority over whites...