Word: stepped
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Thus the time has come to get tough about conservation. The first step should be an immediate increase in the federal gasoline tax. Each 1 cents rise would discourage unnecessary driving and add $1 billion to the U.S. Treasury, part of which could in turn be used to develop nonfossil energy sources. The second obvious step is to raise the auto industry's fuel-economy requirements. That, says Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum, "could save twice the amount of oil in the Prince William Sound spill every...
...elect representatives to negotiate with Israel for some limited "interim" self-rule, as promised more than a decade ago in the Camp David accords. While Shamir again repeated that Israel would never leave those areas, Bush did insist that the U.S. regards any such negotiations as just a first step toward a settlement. But Shamir felt his basic objectives were satisfied. "The Americans certainly don't agree with all of our policies," said an Israeli official. "But," he added, sounding relieved, "they realize they must work with us. We consider that a success...
...have underestimated the extent and gravity of the deformations," he told a Party Conference last year. Nikolai Shmelev, one of the country's radical economic gadflies, has put it more vividly: "We are now like a seriously ill man who, after a long time in bed, takes his first step with the greatest degree of difficulty and finds to his horror that he has almost forgotten how to walk...
Ellen Convisser, president of Boston NOW, saidprotestors will line up at the Washington Monumentat 10 a.m., and the step-off is at noon. Marcherswill then move toward the Capitol, where they willhear speeches and listen to performers until 5p.m...
...step person' on the Northwest steps at the time of the occupation; I remember well that each of the four steps of University Hall had its own leadership and prolonged discussions through the night time hours about what our posture (political and physical) would be if and when a police bust happened. For years afterward, I wore those orangish brown wool pants with pride--my Mom had patched with a big black patch the rip at the knee from getting knocked down the steps by the cops. Did I get clubbed, kicked, or shoved down the steps...