Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intervene on behalf of the impoverished medical consumer. In a program expected to be sent to Congress this week, the Administration is demanding tough restraints on the fastest growing U.S. medical bill, hospital costs, which last year totaled $55.4 billion. What is more, the proposal is only the first step toward Carter's long-range goal: comprehensive national health insurance...
...even if the Prime Minister were to step down under pressure, it is not certain that the country would get a democratically chosen successor. The military, which apparently still backs Bhutto, has taken over control of Pakistan twice before; it would not surprise anyone if it did so once again to prevent all-out civil...
...fishing agreement-necessary since both countries claim 200-mile offshore limits, but are only 90 miles apart. One plan currently under consideration by Washington is to set up an American-staffed "interest" section attached to the Swiss Embassy in Havana, which now represents the U.S., as a first step toward normalization of relations...
...without William S. Paley? Archie Bunker should sooner be sans scowl, Kojak minus his shiny pate. True, last week the company's founder and guiding presence did say, as he promised last fall, that he would step down as chief executive officer May 11. Paley also named his successor: John David Backe, CBS's president, whom the chairman installed in October after firing Arthur R. Taylor (TIME, Oct. 25). But Paley will remain chairman and will still hold 6% of CBS's stock. He took care to tell shareholders at the annual meeting in Los Angeles, where...
...likelihood that not everyone dwells as much as Erikson on the problem of existential definition. It seems more reasonable that we all share the same group of basic pre-occupations--sexuality, existential angst, class consciousness and false consciousness--but in different proportions for different people. Yet Erikson is one step ahead of this objection; as Roazen notes, he is quick to admit that his insights are not comprehensive explanations of personality. Erikson once suggested that modern thinkers should incorporate Freud as a theorist of sex, and Marx as a theorist of work. Playing on Freud's famous dictum that "anatomy...