Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Appropriations Subcommittee "purple," as you say [April 15], but until the hue of Congress becomes more purposeful than regal, the statistical peashooters will continue to confound the postal problems. Let Congress discover the basic causes of the ever-increasing postal deficit; updating the rules would be the first step necessary to reduce or eliminate the postage avoidance practices which shrink postal revenue...
...united its armed forces with Syria's and Egypt's, thereby ringing Israel, under the supreme command of an Egyptian. Major General Abdel Hakim Amer. Yet as an Arab wag put it: "How can Jordan unite with Egypt? Tunnels?" Federation with Syria seemed a more practical first step...
Other kinds of schizophrenic serum produce effects on the webs that are not so obvious. Dr. Bercel's next step: to feed spiders on serum from former schizophrenic patients, now considered cured, to see whether the cure will extend to his spiders, leave them spinning perfect webs...
After advancing more than half a dozen different foreign-policy reasons for refusing to let U.S. newsmen into Red China in the past year, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles retreated a step; he is willing, he said last week, to ease the ban if the "newsgathering community" will help him work out the administrative details. His main concern is no longer to keep reporters out of China (TIME, Feb. 18) but to devise "a passport policy which will permit responsible newsgathering and at the same time not permit a general influx of Americans into Communist China...
...major reason is that many U.S. companies are not aware of the opportunities abroad. The Government itself employs fewer than ten full-time officials at the job of stimulating foreign investment, leaves most of the task to overworked Government personnel abroad. Many foreign-aid experts feel that the first step in expanding U.S. investment overseas should be a broadened Government program to seek out investment projects, sell their attractions to U.S. firms...