Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the U.S. has been at least half a step behind these events, and the Administration's response to them has been confused. For example, Sadat told U.S. Ambassador in Cairo Hermann Eilts in a general way about his plans for a pre-Geneva conference to help clear up procedural problems. Eilts urgently passed the message to Washington. But before Carter and his policy advisers had a chance to assess the ploy and reply, Eilts learned that Sadat was planning to propose such a conference in a speech to Egypt's national assembly. A message was dispatched...
...When you step inside the "house," some parts of it are invisible: darkness laid into darkness. As the eyes adjust, so the forms gradually appear, and this gradual unfolding of complexity is very moving: one is a long way from the direct, all-at-once confrontation of most American sculpture. There is no way of seeing Mrs. N's Palace as a whole. It dis closes itself in time, and each passage of shapes is apt to erase and replace one's memory of its predecessor. In short, it aspires - to employ that gnomic phrase of Walter Pater...
...final blow came in November when a U.S. trade delegation headed by Richard Rivers, Strauss's general counsel, visited Tokyo. The Americans demanded that Japan step up its domestic economic growth to 8% a year or so, as an alternative to reliance on exports, and that it set a specific date for converting its trade surplus to a deficit. Fukuda responded with the Cabinet shakeup; his new ministers are already at work hammering out a program that Ushiba will present to Carter aides in Washington sometime this month...
...might have done away with our import duties on cars as a kind of symbolic gesture. Even if we removed the duties, no one would buy those big American cars. Our roads are too small. But Fukuda hasn't even got the guts to take such an obvious step...
Cheryl L. Whalen '80, another member of the steering committee, said yesterday the festival is a step toward making the Black Table more than just a place to socialize...