Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their neighbors in Italy were much closer to the prospect. After six weeks of caretaker government-close to a record even in Italy-Premier Giulio Andreotti went into a three-day meeting with the 398 parliamentary members from his Christian Democratic Party determined to win backing for a radical step to solve the crisis. Andreotti hewed to the party line, rejecting any deal that would give the Communists seats in some emergency Cabinet -as they had originally demanded. But he argued that in view of the "extreme gravity" of the situation, he should be given a mandate to negotiate "extraordinary...
PRESIDENT CARTER'S DECISION two weeks ago to use his new re-organizational powers to consolidate anti-job-discrimination programs now scattered among 18 separate agencies is an important step towards strengthening a series of civil rights laws enacted in the 1960s. The problem with those laws has been enforcement: there is presently a backlog of 100,000 unresolved job-bias cases and the diffused jurisdiction is in part to blame...
...many reasons, the Core proposal, as it will be presented to the Faculty, is unacceptable. The five subcommittees Dean Rosovsky appointed last year have created a plan that would adversely, if indirectly, affect America's higher education system. In considering this important step, both faculty and students should bear in mind the considerable weight Harvard carries in social and academic circles, and tread carefully. While the Gen Ed system certainly merits revamping, the current Core proposal is not the answer...
Many methods were discussed extensively regarding the ensurance of minority group and viewpoint representation. The convention has, by building such representative guarantees into the framework of the assembly, taken a very big step in assuring the effectiveness of the assembly in representing entire student opinion...
...Another step which we felt important to the effectiveness of the assembly was the minimizations of the powers of the officers. There will be no "President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Student Body." The offices of Chairman, Vice-chairman, Secretary and Treasurer will be positions held for a period of one semester with largely administrative duties...