Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitter struggle, court documents filed in Delaware gave a vivid picture of the two-year merger talks between Time and Warner. A Time brief showed that the two partners broke off negotiations in August 1988 over Time's insistence that Warner Chairman Steven Ross set a date for stepping down as co-chief executive of the merged company to make way for Time President N.J. Nicholas to hold the chief executive's job alone. Not until Ross agreed last January to step aside five years after the merger were the talks able to proceed...
Welfare and affirmative action programs are effective ruses masking the true solution to the problem: equality of opportunity. Many observers are asking themselves how Blacks, who make up 75 percent of all welfare recipients, could have taken such a large step backwards given the billions of taxpayer dollars pumped into the cornucopia of programs grouped under welfare, not to mention the preferential treatment of affirmative action...
...cost of the universal health care plan is really unknown," Woodward said. "I hope we could step back [and] put it off for a couple of years and make a better, more informed decision...
...movement's best hope in the three abortion cases that the court agreed to hear in its next term, which begins in October. Two of the cases involve parental notification; the third, from Illinois, requires that facilities where abortions are performed must meet stringent hospital-level licensing standards, a step so costly that it could force many clinics to shut down. Any of the cases could give the Justices an opportunity to attack Roe directly...
...protecting and promoting Japanese commercial interests. For instance, MITI delayed limiting imports of endangered hawksbill turtles because the agency did not want to allocate quotas among different industries that used the shells. Finally, with both the turtles and the turtle-consuming industries facing extinction, MITI has taken the small step of limiting imports to traditional craftsmen who carve the carapaces into traditional hair combs. Says Toru Takimoto, MITI's point man on endangered species: "There is a dawning realization that we must protect these animals for the industries to survive...