Word: stepped
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...STEP 1: The Hotel. Instead of spending millions of dollars on a construction project that will block traffic in the Square for years, Harvard should take advantage of a building it already owns which is centrally located and can easily be converted into a first class, four-star hotel--Memorial Hall...
...local Dignity leaders to a polite showdown. When they stood by their gay-is-good policy, he informed them that Dec. 18 will mark the last in a 15-year series of Sunday-night Dignity Masses in the city's Catholic churches. Last week Quinn took the final step by informing the archdiocese's priests that they may no longer celebrate Dignity Masses in any location...
Killing the ethics bill was but the latest controversial step taken by an Administration no longer worried about Bush's electoral chances. Since the election the Reagan Administration...
Thinking so may be a comfort to Democrats, but it is the reductio ad absurdum of election analysis and the first step toward losing the next election. How long can Democrats go on missing the point? After a while -- say, a quarter-century -- a pattern begins to emerge. Since 1964 Democrats have lost every presidential election save one. And that one (Carter in '76) was a squeaker and a fluke, coming immediately after Nixon's fall, the Ford pardon and the biggest gaffe in the history of presidential debates (Ford liberating Poland...
Accordingly, four years ago in San Francisco, they filled the convention hall with a sea of waving flags. That did not quite do the trick. So this year they went one step further. They started bashing foreigners -- not Communists, to be sure, but second best -- ruthlessly efficient Asians. Starting with Richard Gephardt's "$48,000 Hyundai" ads and finishing with a Dukakis TV spot that featured a rising Japanese flag, the Democrats' appeal to economic nationalism has not been subtle. Attacking allies is not nearly as satisfying as attacking enemies (say, the Evil Empire), but it is a start...