Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rousseau then took a step that raised the case from a local incident to a French cause celebre: he filed suit against Legras, seeking $22,000 in damages. Even more galling, as many Frenchmen saw it, he nearly got his way. After a month-long dual trial, a court let Burglar Rousseau off with a two-month suspended sentence. As for Owner Legras, however, while no damages were assessed against him, he was declared guilty of using excessive force to defend his home. His sentence: eight months, suspended...
...prices of raw materials, sometimes on insistence that rich countries give preferential tariff treatment to products from LDCs. Poor-country spokesmen have accused multinational companies of ripping off their resources and proclaimed a right to nationalize them, while contending that multinationals have some kind of obligation to step up investment in the LDCs. Through all these assertions has run a consistent theme: the rich countries are engaging in an economic version of imperialism, and have, in conscience, a debt to pay to the South...
Formal aid would not be the only component of such a plan. One other step that the rich countries should take together is to lower the tariffs and scrap the quotas that keep many products of the LDCS-beef, sugar, cotton textiles, shoes -out of Northern markets. These rising barriers hurt precisely those LDCs, such as Argentina, Brazil, India and Mexico, that have the best chance of building sound economies based on a mix of industry and agriculture. The World Bank estimates that trade barriers cost LDCs $24 billion a year in lost exports of manufactured goods alone...
...space program are an especially amusing treat. He suggests, with malicious wit, that NASA'S space walks could actually have taken place on Earth: indeed, he demonstrates that for the price of a video camera and a few buckets of sand, any American can take a giant step for mankind in the privacy of his own home...
...forth in the accompanying course descriptions and standards for assessment. And now, with the debate on that philosophy ended, the key phase of Core development will come as he settles down to the task of translating those detailed guidelines into about 80 or 100 Core courses. The first step in that process will come sometime this summer, when he appoints members of the committees that will set up the new Core courses, and decide the extent of the by-pass and floater provisions authorized by the Faculty. After that, the main problem will be one of making sure the Core...