Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While William Bennett is stepping down as Secretary of Education, he may be looking to take a big step upward in politics...
...have resulted from a collision of random events (an airliner taking off at the moment a naval battle was beginning, for example) with inflexible technology in a pattern that could conceivably happen again. The Navy immediately began searching for ways to guard against that possibility, including the obvious step of feeding information about scheduled civilian air flights into military computers...
...Moreover, Meese realized that his effectiveness at Justice was crippled. The department is operating with three of its four top officials having been there only a short while, and morale is such that U.S. attorneys joke that the nation's highest law officer is barely staying a step ahead of the sheriff...
...Church of England, which has yet to approve women priests, took a major step in that direction last week. But in a contorted plan to appease conservatives, the church synod voted to give dioceses and parishes the right to reject any ministry by women, and even granted $50,000 as compensation for lost pay to any priest who might feel unable to remain in a church with women clergy...
...plan, which envisions increased trade and diplomatic contacts and the reopening of mail service, won support from South Korea's three main opposition leaders. Even students, who plan another march on Aug. 15, conceded that the move was a belated first step toward reunification...