Word: stepping
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...PAGE REPORT on the core curriculum released by the Faculty two weeks ago marks a major step in the long history of General Education at Harvard. Since Harvard helps set the pace for academic trends, the report could have broader ramifications at schools throughout the country...
...Going a step further, Harvard's Martin Feldstein suggests that the Government give what he euphemistically calls "youth employment scholarships to the unemployed and unskilled." Recipients would get 1,500 vouchers, which an employer could turn in to the Government in exchange for $1 each. The firm hiring and training the young person would collect one voucher per hour, thus substantially offsetting the burden of the rising minimum wage, which climbed from $2.30 to $2.65 an hour this year, and will increase to $3.35 in 1981. In the future, the vouchers might have to be worth well over $1. Says...
...plaintive zither of The Third Man gives way to a sorrowful silence in The Human Factor. The development of Castle's motivation is a little thin; his fleeting interest in religious faith seems like a crack in the sidewalk that Greene is compelled to step on. Despite the title, compassion is not the novel's strong point. It is rather the author's bitterness and sense of inevitability about "the intelligent and the corrupt," the Mullers who talk calmly about final solutions and the agents who plan the murder of a colleague between mouthfuls of smoked trout...
Wick said in an interview last week that, "The next step is man." he added that he hopes to complete studies of the effects of L-dopa methyl ester on the human forms of some cancers, including leukemia, by the end of the summer...
Wick said that the first step is to identify a chemical trait unique to the cancerous cells such as the presence of L-dopa. Both melanoma and neuroblastoma are jet-black tumors due to the pigment-producing abilities of their host cells, he said...