Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While fully aware of the domestic problem, explained the President, "I am ... reluctant to impose a barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength is of strategic importance to us." Moreover, "I am not persuaded that [the tariff hike] would constitute a sound step in resolving [the domestic industry's] difficulties"-at the heart of which, Administration spokesmen have pointed out, are declining U.S. catches caused by such made-in-the-U.S. problems as overfishing in local waters and aging vessels...
Keeping in Step. After that, the NATO nations fell over each other in proposing new devices to keep future policies in step. Italy's Gaetano Martino proposed a permanent consultative body to develop a "common Western policy" for areas both inside and outside the NATO areas. West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano suggested an amendment to the treaty itself which would require each NATO nation to consult others on problems affecting the alliance. France's Christian Pineau wanted obligatory consultation on all foreign policies. Even more grandiosely, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd suggested a "grand design...
...ancient tradition of his ancestors, the idol of the Sun Tribers tempers his cynicism with hard work: "As an author, I've got to sleep with my generation like a prostitute, but I've also got to climb out of bed occasionally and try to get one step ahead...
...Hating to see his beloved science slump to its prewar level, Rossby tried to persuade private industry to hire meteorologists or to contract for special meteorological services. For a while he put his heart into this promotion effort, writing and even answering quite a lot of letters. An important step was to persuade the Weather Bureau to make its Teletype weather data available to qualified persons to interpret as they...
...there also came advice to the fast running economy to watch its step. Speaking to the Executives' Club of Chicago, Henry C. Alexander, chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., warned: "Historically, a capital-investment boom such as we are having now has been the culminating phase of the economic cycle. If we keep on accelerating present pressures and loosen our restraints, we will get into maladjustments of production and consumption and excesses of debt-into a spiraling orgy-with the inevitable aftermath of collapse. Yes, the time is here to spend less and save more...