Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your discussion of remedies for the awful problems of "The American Underclass" you seem to have left out the most necessary first step, perhaps the most important answer of all: birth control...
...discussions invariably add that caveat; while the Faculty has reached a reasonable consensus on the need for stricter requirements, it reserves the right to change its collective mind when it sees the real thing). When Gen Ed was first set up in the 1940s, it was a pathbreaking step in liberal arts education, copied all over the country by other colleges. In the enthusiasm of the moment, Rosovsky says, the Faculty didn't worry about mechanics, and the program became increasingly less organized as course offerings proliferated. In these more cynical '70s, Rosovsky says, reformers are likely to proceed with...
Crops are up, prices are down, and Washington is getting set to step...
...moderate black leaders will agree to discuss Smith's plan. Already both Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, the most important nationalist leaders inside the country, have said that they will refuse to join the "broader based" Cabinet that Smith has proposed as a first step...
...unexpected phone call gives Daniel the excuse he wants to step out of his current life; his best friend at Oxford, long since estranged, is dying of cancer and wants to see him. Although the Oxford aesthete in Daniel notes with defensive irony that "all return is a form of bathos," he nonetheless packs his bags and his quest for self-purpose and goes home again...