Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Furcolo's appointment last week of a seven-man commission authorized by the 1957 Legislature to study the question of capital punishment may eventually spell the beginning of the end for that penalty in the Bay State. If abolition is realized, it will be a much-delayed step towards modernizing our penal codes...
...public secondary schools should, therefore, undertake a drastic re-evaluation of their policies in hiring teachers. The first step in this effort is to decrease the number of courses in education required for hiring or promotions. This would help restore the emphasis in public education to hiring academically qualified teachers instead of classroom psychologists; it would also encourage more college students who like their own specialty but do not wish to study education extensively, to enter high school teaching...
Within days, traders on world money markets, who had been selling pounds hoping to buy back at lower rates later on, reversed their course. Instead of being forced to step in with precious dollars to support the pound, the Bank of England, whose reserves were cut by some $500 million in August and September, was able to sell pounds for dollars and recoup some of its losses. Yet no one knew better than Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft that the fight to maintain Britain's currency will not be won overnight. Said he: "We recognize that this...
...definitely the School's most pressing need. Medical texts, pamphlets and slides are scattered all over the Boston-Cambridge area in various small college and hospital libraries, and to unite most of the necessary literature in one spot central to the School and most hospitals would be a great step forward...
...case of the Lynn woman, financial need was found. The next step was to consult a local welfare agency; this is done in all domestic cases. The agency investigates the situation to determine whether divorce is the wisest course of action...