Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leader Robert Byrd, who has not said how he stands on the treaty, described the understanding as "a very important diplomatic achievement and a big plus for the President and the treaty." Republican Senator Robert Dole, one of the pact's chief critics, called the joint statement a "step in the right direction," his most favorable remark to date...
...today's youth, combined with a loss of authority by democratic governments since the early postwar years. Many West German observers believe that the 1968 generation of student protesters developed an idealistic hatred of their country's sleek materialism during the "economic miracle." For many, this was a first step toward radicalism. Beyond that, Frankfurt University Political Scientist Irving Fetscher argues, young middle class German rebels were "spoiled by the rapidity of change in a technological world and by a permissive education that created revolutionary impatience." Perhaps so?but the theorists leave unanswered the question of why only a tiny...
...that he kept looking behind their transgressions, which were frequently ugly, vicious, mindless, to the poverty and brutality of their lives, their social handicaps, the system that doomed them from birth because they were black or foreign or the spawn of poor white families...So he had quit a step ahead of being fired for having the worst prosecutory track record in the state and opened his own office to defend the very people he had formerly prosecuted...
...that Koch promised. The Congressman, not one to decline a crown so generously offered, immediately began acting mayoral, going so far as to name a transition team to take over the government only two days after the run-off. And although Cuomo, uncooperative fellow that he is, refused to step into his freshly-dug grave, he still seemed more like a punched-out sparring partner than a live contender. The clear choice, it was obvious, was Koch...
Whether history will continue to repeat itself will not be known for another three weeks. What is known now is that on Saturday at the Stadium, the Crimson took a giant step backwards thanks to a team that 24 hours earlier couldn't even find the place...