Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recombination research must be continued, but science has to be willing to allow the public to peer over its shoulder every step...
...based ICBMS to surprise enemy attack. In recent months, U.S. defense officials and strategic analysts have warned repeatedly that the Soviets were rapidly increasing their ability to destroy American missiles. Meanwhile, although the fact has received surprisingly little publicity, the U.S. is on the verge of taking a big step forward in its own ability to knock out Soviet ICBMS in their steel-and-concrete silos. The startling success of the new program has important implications for the delicate balance of terror between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The developments are bound to be an important factor when...
...positively ebullient about peace prospects. Meanwhile, the news reaching Washington about the Assad-Brezhnev talks was upbeat: the Soviets seemed eager to resume a leadership role at comprehensive peace talks in Geneva-a role that Henry Kissinger had largely ruled out for them in 1973 when he launched his step-by-step negotiations. While taking care to mute their criticisms of U.S. policy, the Soviets quickly settled their dispute with Assad over Syria's intervention in Lebanon, which had badly bruised Soviet-Syrian relations and seemed to seriously threaten the peace talks...
...American Ballet Theater has gone back to the first Firebird for its latest, opulent new production. The impulse can scarcely be questioned: few companies have the resources to provide the public with a chance to step back in the history of movement. The sets are handsome mock-ups of those designed by Nathalie Gontcharova for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In Natalia Makarova the A.B.T. has a ballerina who understands an older tradition and makes it breathe...
...listeners were prepared for such a plea, since intercommunion-which involves members of one faith taking the sacraments from the other-is generally seen by Roman Catholics as the final step in the reconciliation of the two churches after a split of more than four centuries. "It would appear that Dr. Coggan is overeager and jumping his fences without due regard for their height," sniffed a Roman Curia official. "We are a long, long way from accepting the Host at the hands of an Anglican pastor...