Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory qualified the Crimson for the Schell Trophy, which is a step towards the Atlantic Coast Championships...
Instead of fooling with "monetary aggregates" and free-floating interest rates--which the public doesn't understand, and would probably fight if it did--the federal government could take steps to enforce gasoline conservation, either directly by legislated requirements for Detroit or indirectly by an exorbitant gas tax that would force car-makers to produce more efficient autos. There would be inevitable problems to work out, but the public would see a concrete step against inflation much more comprehensible and palatable than Volcker's fiddling...
...money to get a stock; he could use credit for the rest. Today, under a Federal Reserve rule, customers have to put up at least 50% of their own funds. The Fed can also slow bank credit to stop speculation from feeding a boom, a step it took last week. In addition, there was no watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission in 1929 (it was set up in 1934). Today the SEC closely polices financial markets to stop inside dealing and fraudulent company reports, which were rampant in the '20s. While a stock market fall is always possible...
...Pope and his church are out of step with contemporary Americans, including many Roman Catholics, in dealing with sexuality. In the U.S. generally, sexual pleasure has lately come to be regarded as a matter of personal gratification unconnected with social responsibility or, of course, with sin. Even among U.S. Catholics the trend is toward the belief that any individual act whatever is acceptable if it can be thought to foster love or self-esteem and enrich the life of the participants. The position of the Roman Catholic Church is that self-gratification alone is morally dangerous and that sex must...
Cormack took the first step. A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, he became intrigued in 1956 by the difficulty doctors had in obtaining X-ray pictures of the brain. Because the cranium is so thick, they could make an X-ray beam "see" an abnormality only by injecting a patient with tracer dyes or air bubbles. When Cormack immigrated to the U.S. that year (he became an American citizen a decade later), he began exploring the physics of how X rays pass through differing body parts. Dividing this passage into cross-sectional slices, he found he could calculate the absorption...