Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under Reagan, the panel became more of a bystander. Now high hopes for the commission's revival under George Bush are in danger of being undermined by the antics of its chairman, William Barclay Allen. He refuses to resign despite broad hints from the White House that he should step aside...
...Baker's Middle East strategy includes avoiding a sense of urgency, the , U.S. must step up the pace in Central America, where events threaten to outrun the Administration's ability to deal with them. In Nicaragua the Sandinistas have cried "peace" just cleverly enough to convince the Central American Presidents that the contras, who number about 11,000, should be dislodged from Honduras and disbanded. Although the rebels are pretty well finished as a fighting force, Bush and Baker want to keep them in place and continue supplying them with food, clothing and medical supplies until the Nicaraguan elections, which...
...heptachlor case highlights another flaw in the system. USDA and FDA investigators have been unable to trace the source of the tainted seed because it changed hands -- from farmer to grain-elevator operator to feed broker to poultry producer -- so many times. Closer monitoring is necessary at every step along the food-supply chain. Federal agencies also need more flexible enforcement powers. The USDA, for example, cannot levy fines on processing plants. It can close a plant down, but that is a drastic action that is not readily employed...
...near reverence for authority, East German youths are growing restless because of contact with the freedoms and goods of the West, while an increasingly impatient cadre of younger, more reformist party figures are chafing over the closed door to change at the top. While East Germany seems out of step with other countries of the bloc, it is still marching toward its own brand of Communist crisis...
...rating at a dismal 13%. Last December Garcia's support within his own APRA (Popular American Revolutionary Alliance) Party eroded to the point where he was forced to resign as its leader. Nevertheless, the President, whose five-year term expires in 1990, has stubbornly ignored calls for him to step down...