Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to its obvious importance for middle-income students and parents, the loan program also serves as a much needed gesture of good faith from the University. The new loan program is a small step in the right direction...
...Ford Administration, meanwhile, was annoyed with Israel for attempting to block a U.S. proposal to sell six C-130 cargo planes to Sadat for $65 million. Despite U.S. denials, Israel sees the move as a first step in further armament sales to Egypt and has encouraged pro-Israel Congressmen to oppose it. The lobbying efforts so angered Ford that last week he declared his opposition to an extra $500 million in arms appropriations for Israel...
...creation of the panel is the latest step in what appears, at least on the surface, to be a stepped-up Government campaign to get to the bottom of the problem of corporate bribery. The Securities and Exchange Commission has urged corporations to disclose questionable payments voluntarily rather than be found out by investigators. More than 50 companies have confessed to such payments so far; another 35 have either come to the SEC for guidance on making disclosures or are the subject of SEC probes...
...OTHER SIDE, there is an India that is a more recent phenomenon; this India seems to have taken a step outside and is adapting to the strong external light rather well. The process of adaptation has been a more difficult and sometimes painful one and more problems in the future are inevitable. But that future is faced with a bold sort of confidence which probably derives from the traditional and cultural heritage that was salvaged from the 'interior' and has endured...
...Puritan history, Bercovitch writes squarely in the tradition of Perry Miller, for whom "the mind of man is the basic factor in human history." Like Miller and his disciples, Bercovitch is concerned solely with Puritan intellectuals and their literary outpourings. But his originality resides in taking their approach one step further--by asserting the primacy of language over historical fact as the determinant of culture...