Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate from Texas. Others questioned whether she had the management ability to run the Justice Department. Despite Young's appointment, blacks were demanding wider representation. As if to prove that he was doing his best to satisfy them, Carter took the unusual step of publicly naming three blacks who had taken themselves out of consideration for various reasons: Vernon Jordan, National Urban League executive director, who said he was too "committed to the black people and the Urban League" to consider a job; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who said he was "flattered" but was determined...
Reviving Railroads. On land, Adams' positions and records are even firmer. It was he who in 1970 did most to push through the legislation creating Amtrak as a first step in reviving the nation's dying railroads. In 1973 he was the primary author of the Conrail plan, merging the bankrupt Penn Central and other roads into a Northeastern network. He favors continued regulation of the trucking industry and−most important to big-city dwellers−he believes in improvements in mass transit...
...referendum was another triumphant step on his tightrope walk toward democracy. Spain's leftists, who had urged abstention, coaxed 22.5% of the voters into staying away from the polls. Diehard Franquistas, who viewed the reform as "the antechamber of Communism," were thoroughly repudiated; only 2.6% of the voters cast opposing ballots. "The people," said Christian Democratic Leader Joaquin Ruíz-Giménez, "are not for a return to formulas that have died forever...
...individual citizens to be forced to assume the liabilities for acts of our state and federal governments 200 years ago. No present resident of Mashpee was here then to violate anyone's rights. If, in fact, there was any wrong committed, it is those governmental bodies that must step forth now and assume their responsibilities...
John E. Dowling '57, chairman of the Biology Department said yesterday that the lower rates are "a big step in the right direction." Dowling said he supports the present system, and added the old one was "a disadvantage...