Word: stepping
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...last indexed in 1909. There are still laws on the books that make it a crime to interfere with government carrier pigeons or to seduce a woman aboard a passenger ship. President Johnson authorized the Brown Commission in 1966 to update the code, which was clearly out of step with modern society and legal thought. After 12 years and a long, strange trip, the House now has before it Senate Bill 1437, an enormous 700 page effort to clean up the system. The bill passed the Senate on January 30 by a vote...
...primary responsibility for disarmament rests on the super powers, and it is for them to take the first step," Igbal Akund, permanent representative to the United Nations from Pakistan, said yesterday...
...Congressional House committee yesterday approved with only minor changes a bill regulating recombinant DNA research, moving the bill one step closer to consideration by the full House...
...NEGOTIATED END to the four-day sit-in by more than 600 students at the University of Pennsylvania marks a step in the right direction towards increasing administrative recognition of student opinion. The Pennsylvania administration's agreement to establish numerous programs to involve students more directly in the administrative decision-making process is an extremely welcome outcome of the more than 87 hours of negotiations. However, the problem of administrative disregard for student opinion is not limited to the Philadelphia campus...
...Gunther's piece also illustrates how easy it is to confuse the ackowledgement that a problem exists, and the problem's resolution. And to go a step further, his article represents reaction against what he sees as excessive reform, when in fact much reform has not occured in the first place...