Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suffered long enough, and it is time that the people of the world realize this. Support for the Israelis is fine as long as they agree to meet with the P.L.O. The Rev. Jesse Jackson [Oct. 8] and the other black leaders of the U.S. have taken a big step in achieving real lasting peace in the Middle East by meeting with the leaders of the P.L.O. and the other Arab countries involved...
Harvard officials say they'll step up efforts to get his release. "We're hopeful that he'll be able to come." Nadia Svitlychna, a former dissident now at the Institute said, "but if the Soviets want to create problems for him they certainly...
...elect our presidents not because we know what they stand for, but because of how well we think they stand: Are they leaders? Do they have moral courage? Can they instill trust in the people? But national candidates, with their image advisers and make-up men, are matched almost step for step by big city mayoral contenders, who play at being gruff or Irish or aggressive or "old town," while hiding issue stances, when they have them, safely away from the prying eyes of the electorate...
...attacks on affirmative action, rollbacks of hard-won gains in abortion rights and labor law reform. Most of all, the Right expects that the growing public distrust of Big Government and demands for Washington to get its nose out of other people's business will allow the corporations to step into the vacuum and reassert control in a way undreamed of since the days of Warren Harding...
After an amicable, divorce from a pastoral marriage with the Ivy League, he is hazarding the next, enormous step up--to major league baseball...