Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second step of the selection process, Alfandre said, the choral societies will enlist the aid of a panel of "music luminaries"--heads of music departments at other universities, music critics, and professional conductors--to choose five candidates by mid-December...
Foreign reaction to the crackdown was immediate and caustic. State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III said the Administration was "deeply disturbed" by what "seems to represent a very serious step backward." Other officials suggested that Washington might now be willing to consider diplomatic and economic sanctions against the South African regime. "I think they panicked," said U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. "They are frightened, and they are committing political and social suicide." Ambassador William Bowdler was called back to Washington from Pretoria for "consultations...
Last week the Carter Administration took a long overdue step to deal with the nuclear waste from generating plants and proposed that the Government take over responsibility for storing the spent fuel. The companies would transfer the material to the Government on a voluntary basis and pay a storage fee. How many storage sites will be needed and where they will be located has not yet been decided. So far, the industry's inventory of spent fuel is 2,500 metric tons, and by 1985, when some 75 new nuclear generators will have come into production, the backldog will...
Washington's belated recognition of the U.S.'s leadership responsibility in nuclear-waste management is a small but significant step. But it must be followed up with a continuing vigorous effort to resolve the menacing threat of nuclear waste to the safety and well-being of whole populations. Otherwise the full dawning of the atomic age could be postponed indefinitely, with grave consequences for a world already facing the threat of energy shortages...
...business community. And in the tax-reform package we hope to stimulate our economy to some degree, provide easier accumulation of capital for increased investment. And I think that these two basic premises of the tax-reform package, combined with success in the energy field, will be a great step toward restoring, or at least establishing, increased confidence...