Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obstacles with cat-like agility. He climbed the stadium wall in one leap, fearlessly risking life and limb. He pulled at the banner, so close to victory his heart was pounding furiously. With one last heroic effort he freed the last corner and bolted from the stadium one step ahead of the authorities...
...beasts organize themselves to see the contemporary version! Preparations begin the day after a site has been chosen. The first step in 18 months of logistical work-up is the arrival in the blessed city (the Super Bowl pours $55 million to $70 million into the local economy) of Bill Granholm, a top aide to National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle. Granholm begins by cornering 15,000 hotel rooms. Before the game is over, he and the rest of the league staff will have seen to everything from towels and hot dogs to brackets for televisions in the press...
...attempt to limit the definition of a legal abortion. But in writing in an additional majority statement arguing that Edelin, as long as he did not cause its death, could not be held liable even had the fetus lived and then died, three of the justices have gone a step further: they have offered protection to doctors who perform abortions in the future. Justices Kaplan, Braucher and Wilkins recognized that when a 17-year-old woman entered Boston City Hospital in late September 1973 requesting an abortion, Edelin observed the law regarding his practice--as far as the law went...
Kloske said the interview is the crucial step in selection--"It was the most harrowing experience I've ever gone through." Kloske plans to study international relations during his two years at Oxford...
...December, but quickly deadlocked. The Japanese offered to restrict themselves to building 6.5 million of the 12 million tons of vessels that world shipping lines are expected to order for delivery in 1980. The Europeans demanded that the Japanese trim down to 4 million tons-and, as a first step, split all tonnage ordered in 1977 and '78 fifty-fifty with European yards. The Japanese refused, and clung to that position in talks last week with a European delegation that visited Tokyo. The Europeans, in response, have set two new deadlines: Japan must offer an acceptable compromise on shipbuilding...