Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through the day there were more phone calls, more verses. Khaalis seemed to be listening. Shortly after 6 p.m. Ambassador Ghorbal took the riskiest step. "Let us come to you, dear brother," he said, "and sit down and talk at a table of peace." Khaalis agreed...
Dunk. The word does not do justice to the majesty and the savagery of the act. First comes the ballet move-an explosion in the legs, a concussive last step and then a great leap. Floating, twisting, pulling free of the floor, drifting over dazed defenders. Then the frozen moment, suspended above the basket, serene for a timeless instant. Finally the kill: ramming ball through rim in a single ferocious stab of hostility and triumph...
...training of youths. More basically, he complains that Carter "has failed to come to grips with the fundamental factor behind teen-age unemployment-the minimum wage law." The AFL-CIO is now campaigning to have the $2.30-an-hour pay floor raised to $3.00. Such a step could well price even greater numbers of unskilled young people out of the job market and into the street. Says a Florida social worker who tries to find work for teen-agers from a poverty-ridden area north of Miami, "It's bad enough now, but if the floor goes up again...
...television than to books, Poussaint fired off copies of her resume to television and radio stations around the country. CBS hired her for its Chicago outlet, and three years later made her a network correspondent there, at $28,000 a year. But Poussaint considers network reporting just another step in her relentless quest for learning and experience. She talks of going back to teaching, or helping an African nation set up its own television industry. Says Poussaint: "I don't intend to spend the next ten years of my life jumping on and off airplanes trying to explain...
Ryan was accompanied at his first Yale news conference by head Eli football coach Carmen Cozza. Cozza originally agreed to step down as coach and assume the athletic directorship last fall, but he changed his mind...