Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today only those can count on success who are marching in step with the times, who are drawing the necessary conclusions from the changes resulting from the fact that the world has entered the era of high technology, of intellectual labor, of the decisive role of science," he said...
Unfortunately none of these myriad issues came out in the Times, which was too busy throwing insults to step back and take a serious look at the issue. This major press institution had an opportunity to address a vital question about the appropriate role of the press in society, and it failed...
Baker's next step will be to hold out a list of economic and diplomatic incentives to reward democratic reforms in Nicaragua. Such a list has not yet been compiled, but the rewards will probably include the presence of an American Ambassador in Managua for the first time in nearly a year, a gradual lifting by Washington of its almost four-year-old trade embargo, and loans through the Inter-American Development Bank...
...wider circles, Irving is known as a modern American Dickens. His novels are animated by victims of society who grapple with issues such as terrorism, rape and abortion. Owen Meany goes a step beyond. "I'm moved and impressed by people with a great deal of religious faith," says Irving, an Episcopalian who admits that the compulsory churchgoing of his youth has had a cumulative effect. But, he adds, "the Christ story impresses me in heroic, not religious, terms...
...1970s were only a bad dream, consumers have been content to step on the gas. Sales of light trucks and four-wheel-drive vehicles, which generally guzzle more fuel than autos, have set U.S. sales records for four of the past five years. Small wonder: the price of gasoline, adjusted for inflation, is at its 1965 level. Among customers choosing a recreational vehicle, says Bill Jocoy, a salesman at Northwoods RV Supermarket in Lansing, Mich., mileage per gallon ranks only fifth or sixth among their priorities, after color and floor plan...