Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seventh-grade English teacher. All my students watched Roots. The effect on them was not a step toward interracial unity. They were confused and upset, and reacted by calling one another "Masser" and "Nigger...
...keeping with his campaign promise that top officials in his Administration would publicly disclose their assets and liabilities as a step toward restoring Americans' trust in their Government, Jimmy Carter last week issued financial statements for 15 Cabinet-level officials. If this was full disclosure, maybe total concealment deserves another try. Instead of announcing actual assets and liabilities, the White House used letter symbols ranging from A ($1 to $5,000) to E ($100,000 or more...
...time, the story goes, Amin walks over to the freezer to lecture his frozen audience about the evils of their ways. A former Amin aide who escaped to Kenya last year described Ugandan life to TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week: "You are walking, and any creature making a step on the dry grass behind you might be an Amin man. Whenever you hear a car speeding down the street, you think it might suddenly come to a stop-for you. I finally fled, not because I was in trouble or because of anything I did, but out of sheer...
Devolution Scheme. The trouble was that while Labor had thought up the devolution scheme to keep Scotland part of the United Kingdom, the Scottish National Party shrewdly endorsed the measure as the first step toward total sovereignty. The S.N.P. endorsement troubled backbenchers on both sides of Parliament. Political leaders in economically deprived English regions began to talk of local assemblies of their own. Liberal M.P.s wondered whether a federal system for the entire U.K. might be a sensible idea. Furthermore, as parliamentary debate on the government's bill opened, the original devolution question became mired in a muddy loch...
...hospital's Rogosin Kidney Center, visited Moscow's Institute of Transplantation, which is headed by the prominent surgeon Dr. Valery Shumakov. The two doctors agreed that exchanging information and technology could lead to improved care for kidney patients in both countries. Shumakov volunteered, as a first step, to send a kidney to American doctors. (There are more kidneys available in the U.S.S.R. than in the U.S. because there are fewer legal obstacles to obtaining organs and fewer patients awaiting transplants.) In the U.S., at least half of the 32,000 patients on kidney machines are hoping for donor...