Word: stepped
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...presidential commissions, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the World Health Organization, is not the first expert to conclude that the desire to alter one's state of consciousness is a drive as elemental as hunger, thirst and sex. But he takes the argument a radical step further by proposing that society would be best served if it accepted the inevitability of intoxication and launched an all-out effort to invent less damaging, nonaddictive substitutes for alcohol and the popular illicit drugs...
...step one in the Civil Rights Movement was to catapult Blacks into powerful public positions, step two must be to realize that in every race there are the unqualified, the unethical, the unworthy...
When they looked at the high court's decision, opponents of abortion saw it as the first step towards a reversal of the decision to legalize abortion handed down 16 years...
...wife, or, as he would say with precision, "a pace behind her, old chap, a pace behind her." He is mainly visible as the gracious host while his wife conducts affairs of state. At 74, < he seems eminently fit for the job: the back is still ramrod straight, the step springy, the mind clear as a bell. What keeps him in such excellent fettle? "Cigarettes and gin," chuckles Denis...
...eleventh-hour amends are unlikely to save the exchanges from increased regulatory scrutiny. Last week the House Agriculture Committee voted to boost the budget of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees the Chicago markets, from $34.7 million to $44.5 million by 1991. And in a step designed to prevent front-running, the committee moved to partly restrict brokers from trading for their own and their clients' accounts at the same time...