Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correctional system, as the state refers to it, is a bit of a misnomer for the prison system. Since 1975, it has been based on a "step" system, where prisoners progress from heavy to lighter security jails as they return. But, as in the current situation on Cell Block Four, there is a basic contradiction involved: behavior the prison administrators consider "progressive"--informing on other prisoners, cooperating with the guards--is the very behavior the prisoners' code condemns...
After all of these positions and activities, a deanship was a logical next step. In 1975, he accepted the University of Chicago's offer. As Tosteson notes, "The reward for a job well done is another job." But there was still one more job in the offing. When last fall Tosteson accepted President Bok's offer of appointment to his alma mater, Harvard Medical School, the president of the University of Chicago quickly relieved Tosteson of his posts at Chicago, citing "the potential conflicts of interest in Dr. Tosteson's position as dean-designate of the Harvard Medical School...
...Step out into the light...
...will never step down voluntarily. He will stay as long as his body will hold. He will run the country from the hospital and he believes that he can get away with...
...Dartmouth was worried now, it turned green (as in sick, not Big) when, early in the second frame, Sigillito did a little one step, two step for a seven-yard, his second, Harvard's third score. The Crimson was doing what it pleased, and it was pleased by what it was doing...