Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...temperature but the ice -which caused him to suspend his usual five-mile morning jog until the roads are safer. Some of his less active colleagues lost no time in offering personal tips on how to warm yourself up. In the Nation section, Robert Goldstein recommended the "Canadian Two-Step," a lively, though inexplicable, jig that he learned while writing in frigid Montreal. For some reason, more people seemed interested in the antidote offered by World Writer Burton Pines, who recalled how he survived a chilly reporting assignment on the midwinter Baltic Sea: "I found that hot, spicy red cabbage...
...pledge perseverance and wisdom in our efforts to limit the world's armaments to those necessary for each nation's own domestic safety. We will move this year a step toward our ultimate goal-the elimination of all nuclear weapons from this earth...
...warmly support Carter was Senator Edward Kennedy, who said that the new President had taken a "major, impressive and compassionate step toward healing the wounds of Viet Nam." While announcing his limited program of pardons, Carter said that he had made up his mind to make this move a full two years ago. At that time, he was still a former Governor of Georgia who believed, despite the doubts of others, he would some day have the power to put his decision into effect from the White House...
Dartmouth, Middlebury and Vermont are big draws for high school skiers. These schools have traditionally given scholarship preference to skiers. According to Harvard alpine captain Peter Anton, many of their skiers are Can-Amcaliber, which is only a step below the World Cup circuit...
These fears could be exaggerated. Some analysts suggest that Wall Street has been making its own calculations on the amount of pure inflation in company profits all along and that is why stock prices have failed to keep in step with higher posted earnings. Declared corporate profits climbed by about 40% from 1968 to 1976; yet "real" earnings, adjusted for inflation, have risen hardly...