Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some shop owners posted signs warning DON'T CARRY YOUR GUNS IN HERE. Police expressed concern, and the tourist industry faced a hurricane of bad publicity; editorial cartoonists dubbed Florida the "Gunshine State." Said one state representative after the loophole was closed: "I think we've taken the first step to restoring sanity to our streets...
...attempt to ease the greenhouse effect by imposing limits on CO2 and other emissions is unlikely. John Topping, president of the Washington- based Climate Research Institute, argues that adjustments in agricultural production, like limiting the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers, would have only a slight effect. A more important step would be to protect the tropical rain forests, a move that would certainly be resisted by developers. Obviously, the most far-reaching step would be to cut back on the use of fossil fuels, a measure that would be hard to accomplish in industrialized countries without a wholesale turn...
...that's how he feels, and that's how it's gonna stay. We tried all the time to get him to change things, but he was a hard fella to get to change things; he wouldn't do it. Jim was out of step with the world even then...
JOHN KENNETH Galbraith tells the story of a drunken student who plunged to his death from a Winthrop House suite in the 1930s. Evidently such incidents are of inordinate concern to Harvard housemasters, who last week took what might be the first step toward bringing back the good-old-days of curfews...
...Nobel prize winners took the first step in an area which scientists have been trying to explore for over a decade. Since Bednorz and Mueller made their discovery, others researching high temperature superconductors have made further developments in the field, Tinkham said...