Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purpose throughout is to offer citizens of the global village a selection of practical information that is tailored to their needs, while remaining attentive to regional concerns. We took an additional step in that direction in April by becoming the first global newsmagazine to convert to all-color printing in all editions (a capability we've had in the U.S. since...
Kirk and Madsen charge that the gay movement has been weakened by its insistence that self-hatred is a basic problem. "Learning to like yourself is an essential first step," Kirk told TIME, "that's all it is." It does not guarantee that everyone else will like you too, he notes. If gays are to achieve the ultimate goals of acceptance and assimilation, they will have to overcome America's hostility...
...that Japan will try to hide its financing of projects that damage the environment. One method would be to make unrestricted loans to foreign banks. The banks could then lend money to controversial projects, but Japan would not be blamed. One fear is that Japan will use such "two-step" loans to fund a major road that would open up the western Amazon to logging. Says Alex Hittle, international coordinator of | Friends of the Earth, U.S.: "It's in general loans that disturbing things might be lurking...
...pressed ahead with its planned merger with Warner Communications. To that end, Time and Warner on June 16 converted their original debt-free stock swap into a leveraged takeover bid in which Time would buy Warner for a total of up to $14 billion in cash and securities, a step that, among other things, eliminated the need for the deal to be approved by Time stockholders...
...Charlie Finley that Kuhn was wrecking him financially by arbitrarily keeping him from liquidating his team a player at a time. Judge McGarr ruled, "So broad and unfettered was the commissioner's discretion intended to be that the owners provided no right of appeal, and even took the extreme step of foreclosing their own access to the courts...