Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years in most educational institutions there's been enormous increase in the volume of knowledge, the degree of specialization, the size of faculties. The courses have proliferated, new fields of study have been opened up, and we're now entering a period of consolidation where we have to step back and look at what has occurred and try to redefine our purposes and the objectives of a liberal arts education and provide a structure in our curriculum that will emphasize the most important portions and aspects of undergraduate education, so that our purposes become contemporary and clear to our students...
...view is that in 1977 we should convene the Geneva Conference to decide the framework for an overall settlement. There is no need for any more "step by step." The Golan Heights is so small that it is not necessary to talk about further Israeli withdrawal before the final withdrawal. The second Sinai disengagement agreement defused the Israeli-Egyptian front...
...overtures. At a meeting in Chile two weeks ago, General Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina's tough military ruler, told Pinochet that police-state terror had tarnished Chile's image abroad. After that rebuff, Pinochet's government reluctantly granted the amnesty as a first limited step toward regaining international respectability. Nonetheless, Amnesty International estimates there are still more than 1,000 political suspects in prison. Of the thousands of people who have been in Chile's jails since the junta took over, hundreds have simply "disappeared"; most are presumed to have been tortured and killed by DINA...
...President A.W. Clausen appointed a task force that was supposed to draft the code in six months; it took ten months. Says Executive Vice President Leland Prussia: "We really did plunge into some icy waters." On balance, the bank emerged with a code that is a welcome step away from needless secrecy...
...medicine and still experiences pain. In an infrequent interview, with TIME Music Critic William Bender, he dispatched the subject of pain fast: "So what! I had a long time to think during seven weeks in the hospital. Now everything is such a joy, the bread I eat, every step. It's a new life...