Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play their recordings over and over. They neglect responsibilities at home, school or work. Sometimes they devote an entire room to a celebrity, filling it with photographs and clippings, making it a sort of shrine. "Families should take this seriously," warns Dietz, "but they usually don't." The next step in the compulsion often involves travel, according to De Becker, first in a random pattern, then with a purpose: to follow the object of their desires...
WHEN Japanese voters last week dealt a critical blow to their ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), they moved their nation one step closer to maturity as an international superpower...
...cost of such a multi-step project would be large -- at least $5 billion a year and maybe considerably more. But unlike the $35 billion spent on the shuttle program, the expenditure would produce a return not just in prestige and technological leadership but also in the establishment of bases and % stations that can be used for future space projects. In order to ease the costs, the U.S. should encourage as much participation as possible by foreign governments. The Soviets, Europeans and Japanese all have active space programs, and duplication of efforts will increasingly be seen as an unnecessary waste...
...cannot remain a leading force in technology, industry and science unless it is in the forefront of space exploration. Throughout its history, America has been a nation of discoverers and achievers. If it fails to take the next major step in space, it will have given up an essential part of its national character...
...cooperate in solving "our common problem" of drug smuggling from South America. That conciliatory line was a far cry from his flat denials in the past of charges by Washington that some Cuban military officials were part of the narcotics pipeline to the U.S. As a first step in his country's crackdown, Castro said, Cuban pilots will begin shooting down any unidentified airplane flying over the island that ignores orders to land...