Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, the Administration showed its concern with war on a much wider scale by requesting $245 million in development funds for a mobile missile system and indicated that it would step up research on a satellite killer to counter Soviet advances in that sphere (see following story). The mobile missile, called M-X (for "missile experimental"), would replace the Minuteman in a decade; by then the Soviets would presumably have the means to wipe out the Minuteman's fixed underground silos. The MX, at a total cost of at least $40 billion, could be moved rapidly along tracks...
Carter's position was more complex. Presumably anxious to get his program moving, he did not want to discourage such supporters as Abourezk and Metzenbaum, but he also did not want to step on Byrd's leadership prerogatives. In the end, he apparently failed to communicate to anyone his desires on whether to end the filibuster...
...days in December 1973 and then recessed because Israel was about to hold general elections. The conference, co-chaired by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, has never reconvened; during the recess, Henry Kissinger eased the Russians out of the picture temporarily, to conduct his own series of step-by-step negotiations involving Israel, Syria and Egypt...
...scared, huh? We're 4-0, you know, we just beat Yale, your partner in obnoxiousness, and now we're set to step on you. And by the way, did you see John Harvard the other day? We fixed him, all right, we painted him green, 'cuz we know that while you guys would never admit it, you're just green with envy that you have to go to Harvard and didn't get into Dartmouth...
...next step is to fight the issue out on the floor of the Senate," Backman said yesterday, adding he is confident that the bill is not dead despite the Judiciary Committee's adverse report...