Word: stepping
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Obviously, some readjustment and redirection of resources is going to be necessary, but just as such a step will be imperative economically it will be difficult politically. A systematic program of redirection is bound to include such traditional bugaboos as national health insurance, large-scale federal highway construction and comprehensive federal aid to education. The leaders and the people of the United States will have to meet the domestic challenge of total disarmament with a forcefulness and imagination they have shown only in times of extreme calamity...
Total disarmament, to be sure, is not the only possible forward step. Some sort of half-way measure is more likely to emerge from negotiation. But along this line Khrushchev's particular proposals require very careful scrutiny, for they seem designed to weaken the West far more than the Soviet Union. The Russians ask the elimination of foreign bases and nuclear weapons, followed, not accompanied, by inspection. Even if the Soviets carried out this process in good faith, their superior ground forces would give them a military advantage which might well tempt them into provoking limited peripheral conflicts without fear...
Famous as an authority on business and labor relations, he authored the Slichter Law, which empowers the Governor of Massachusetts to step into a strike where the health and welfare of a community are endangered...
...that fact, said Ike. "Congress will feel the heat of truth about this matter and do something." At week's end the public was about to be educated. In Washington, the Federal Housing Administration prepared to raise the home mortgage rate from 5½% to 5¾%. a step expected to drain off financing for G.I. home loans, still legally limited...
...winter resorts and next sum mer, makers ranging from big Catalina, and Cole of California, to Manhattan's petite Margaret Pennington, were plainly convinced that the Bikini, and two-piece suits in general, will be the brief thing to wear. Reasons: the rise in private pools, the step-up in travel to Europe, which has broadened the U.S. woman's taste while relaxing her modesty, and the huge increase in dieting to keep in trim. More women can afford to show more of their figures. Says Neiman-Marcus Buyer Sally Tutt: "The Bikini will be a big thing...