Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater depth at higher cost. There will be no incentive to develop these supplies, the industry argues, until price controls are lifted from gas that is piped interstate; the price is presently held at $1.44 per 1,000 cu. ft. Carter's gas bill takes a small step toward decontrol by allowing the gas that is being reallocated to the East to rise to a price of $2.25 per 1,000 cu. ft., an increase that will be in effect until July 31. Whether Carter will move toward further deregulation after that is uncertain. Such a move would...
There was no waffling, however, in the Administration's retaliation against the Krimsky expulsion. Deploring the "step backward from the objective of Helsinki," the State Department gave Washington-based Tass Correspondent Vladimir Alekseyev a week to pack his bags...
...prenotification strategy remain to be worked out. Union leaders wonder how they can reasonably be expected to notify the White House of coming wage boosts that must be negotiated with management. Businessmen are generally dubious about anything that smacks of controls, and some fear prenotification may be a step in that direction. Others are willing to talk increases over with the Administration in advance-provided that they are asked to do so. Many say they have not been...
...journey of a thousand miles, said Chinese Philosopher Lao-tzu, must begin with a single step. So must a journey of millions of miles. Early in 1979 a squat and ungainly-looking craft known as a space-shuttle orbiter will open up a new age in space exploration-the era of the reusable spacecraft-by taking its first round trip around the earth and back. Last week the first of these craft stepped off on this journey into history. In a daylong trek, the ship was moved 58 kilometers (36 miles) across California's Mojave Desert from the Rockwell...
...Naropa go back to 1959, when Chogyam fled the Communist takeover of Tibet and went to England to study Western culture at Oxford. Once there, he decided to wear Western clothes, to "do away with exotic externals, which were too fascinating to students in the West." The next step: marriage to a 16-year-old English girl. At that heresy against celibacy, his followers in the United Kingdom rebelled, and Chogyam decided to try America...