Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing worries about U.S. military strength have been skillfully exploited by Ronald Reagan, who has caustically attacked Ford's defense policies (see story page 19). For his part, Ford has adopted "peace through strength" as his campaign slogan and promised last week to take the unprecedented step of vetoing any Pentagon budget that is much lower than what he has proposed. Senators and Representatives expect a similar debate over defense in their own campaigns. Says Democratic Representative Richard Boiling of Missouri: "No one wants to go into this election with the idea afoot that he's against national...
Thompson became a legend among state cops. "We were always one step behind him," says Indiana Police Captain Doug Buck. Declared Thompson last week before dictating his 13-page confession: "I wouldn't attempt to guess how many states I've worked." He immediately ticked off eight. He had been arrested for check forgery only once before: in Peoria in 1974, where he posted bond, quickly jumped it and was back forging in a matter of hours...
...decade of the '60s did much to erode it. Nations and societies went crazy, as they had in the past, but this time they were collectively judged to be abnormal: society was blamed, not its members or its leaders. British Psychiatrist R.D. Laing took that view a step further, enunciating that in a crazy world even wildly abnormal personal behavior might be considered sane...
...solution is to step up Harvard's lobbying effort in Washington, D.C. "This is not a congenial task for educators," he writes, "who dislike the thought of seeming to play the part of lobbyists. But it is wrong to conceive of the effort in such narrow terms." In one sense the idea is sound: any Harvard student knows that a pack of Harvard professors dispatched to lecture in Washington could easily lull to sleep whole departments of formerly alert government regulators. Yet Harvard might benefit more if, instead of lobbying in the capital to keep governmental regulations out of Harvard...
...time for an autograph session but his books were not. A complaint to his publishers brought promises of action. Indeed, a stack of his books awaited him at other stops. Only later did Maas learn that it was the same stack of books that his publishers kept shipping one step ahead...