Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wild twist powered by Buddy Holly's "Rock Around the Clock." The Hustle, on the other hand, has a limited future in Peru. The need which the Hustle filled in the States for a dance in which the partners touch, a dance with complicated variations on a single step, simply does not exist here. The cumbia, the parrandera, the marinera all fit the bill and all are actively danced; even, on occasion, the tango. As the party progresses, however, dancers settle into what is most familiar--the wiggling shoulders, swinging arms, smooth steps, and sideward swaying of the hips that...
Charlie's Angels: the show is yet another human sacrifice to the almighty god Nielsen and a giant step backward for womankind...
Conciliatory Step. Meanwhile, Carter made a halfhearted and probably ill-advised attempt to persuade the steel industry to cut back its announced price increases (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Taking a conciliatory step back from his campaign talk. Carter later reiterated that he would not seek authority to invoke wage and price controls ("I believe in the free-market system") but might try to establish voluntary guidelines in close consultation with industry and labor...
...warheads, kept in Europe by the U.S., are theoretically to be delivered by plane, cannon and missile against relatively limited targets like supply depots or massing tanks. In practice, however, the U.S. would have to hesitate before crossing even a tactical nuclear threshold, for that could be the first step toward triggering a global atomic exchange. If Warsaw Pact troops were to push into and occupy West German urban areas, NATO would face the agonizing prospect of unleashing a tactical atomic barrage against the cities and towns of its own member...
Essentially, Prime Minister James Callaghan agreed to take the politically explosive step of carving $5.8 billion out of Britain's $18 billion budget deficit over the next two years, largely by slashing government outlays. The Cabinet is considering draconian spending cuts, like a moratorium on all government construction. Ministers are further thinking about removing automatic cost-of-living increases from social security payments and civil service pensions, despite an inflation rate now running at almost 15%. Defense expenditures will be cut too (see THE WORLD), but not as sharply as social spending. Some British taxes will have...