Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encoding is the first step in administration plans to test equipment designed to limit access to University facilities. Gibson said he hopes to experiment later this spring with shoe-box-like readers that scan the stripe to determine whether I.D. cards are valid and whether their holders are entitled to board privileges...
...Personnel Planning, a different kettle of fish altogether. Hall explained the transfer this way: "John is a competent professional who was in the job so darn long that he just got crowded in by all the trees. We said, Hey John, you deserve and have earned the right to step aside and catch your breath a bit. Let us take over some of the things you've been handling, and when you're ready, why, you can come back...
...their haunches and howl at the moon." As for his hoofing ability, the paper's critic was relieved to find that Prowse "is fast enough on her feet to prevent any damage to her toes when Rock is called on to do an occasional, stiff-backed military two-step." With his eight-week run sold out before opening night, Hudson claimed to be unperturbed by the notices, although he did concede that "actually, I dance better when I'm drunk...
...glamorous in the U.S. as in Europe. A successful skier here labors in obscurity, while in Europe he is often a national hero. What's more, in Europe amateurs do not exist. Topflight skiers quietly receive fat fees from equipment manufacturers. Where private enterprise stops, governments step in. The Russian hockey team, for instance, is a state-supported operation. So is the speed-skating team. The American speed-skating program is so impoverished that there is only one 400-meter rink in the entire 50 states-compared with nine, for example, in The Netherlands...
...present life, took a skeptical view of such hoarding and helped themselves. The security of buried pharaohs became a macabre contest. As grave robbers prepared to descend on a site, loyal priests who had set guards on the mummies would rush the embalmed bodies to secret hiding places, one step ahead of the thieves...