Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centers under federal programs and probably do it better and cheaper and even profitably. Tax incentives, for example, could be designed to reward employers who hire the long-term unemployed and show results in upgrading their skills. Certainly, government-supported jobs of any kind are only a first, temporary step in lifting the underclass; the real solution is for members to get and hold private jobs...
While Israel's Menachem Begin was diigging in deeper on the West Bank issue, off in Beirut his Palestinian foes last week took a big if unheralded step toward peace. TIME has learned that after extensive negotiations-urged on them, for the most part, by Soviet diplomats-the so-called Palestinian "rejectionists" have decided to end their defiant stand against peace on any terms with Israel and agree with the larger Palestine Liberation Organization on the goal of securing an independent state on the West Bank and in Gaza. The agreement on a limited but attainable Palestine clears...
...next step in the Palestinian strategy, reported TIME'S Dean Brelis and Abu Said Abu Rish from Beirut, is a p.r. blitz focusing on Israel as the big obstacle to a Middle East settlement. "We're not blocking peace," says a P.L.O. spokesman. "Israel is." To press that point, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat plans to fly to New York next month (aboard an Algerian-lent 707 jet) to push for a new United Nations resolution-to be introduced by an as yet undesignated Arab delegation-that will call for the recognition of Israel in exchange for solid guarantees...
...each step up the ladder, the smaller bank seeks the help of a big brother to provide services that it cannot offer, or offer so well, on its own. Examples...
...attempted a huge step toward a distant planet and the interstellar space beyond it last week-but not without some unexpected difficulty. At Florida's Kennedy Space Center, an 1,800-pound spacecraft known as Voyager 2 was launched atop a Titan-Centaur rocket and aimed at Jupiter, 579 million miles and nearly two years away. Voyager 2 was hardly aloft, however, before it reported a malfunction in the boom that carries a key package of TV cameras and scientific instruments...