Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next step," Coats said, "is to prove we can do it on a regular basis, that we're back in the business of space, to show we're a space-faring nation again...
...issue is an important step toward learning how well a broken human bone might mend during long flights aboard a space station or on a trip to Mars...
...Neill, Harvard's associate vice president for state and community relations, announced last week that she would step down from her post in June. She has been the University's chief representative to the community for 12 years...
...last week it was the twelve nations of the European Community that took the lead in dealing with the threat to the ozone. In a surprise step, environmental ministers meeting in Brussels agreed that their countries would reduce CFC production by 85% as soon as possible and try to ban the chemicals altogether by the end of the century. That goes far beyond the 1987 Montreal Protocol, ratified by the U.S. and 30 other nations, which pledged only a 50% reduction...
...with a huge margin of popularity. That goodwill was suddenly forgotten when the rattled leader failed to stop the violence with a rambling, sometimes angry television address. Meantime, Venezuela had provided the world with an ugly example of the trials Latin America faces in trying to step out of the debt quagmire...