Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision public now. If he announces that he will run, then the guessing game can end and a campaign begin, complete with a debate of the issues and of Kennedy the candidate. If he announces that he will not run, other candidates, now paralyzed by Kennedy's vacillation, could step into the void...
...White House probably would have preferred Church to handle the matter in the same way that Carter discussed it at a Wednesday breakfast with Democratic congressional leaders. Although he seemed somewhat out of step with his Secretary of State, who was treating the issue with gravity, the President appeared to view it almost lightly. He emphasized to his guests that the Soviet brigade "posed no threat" to the U.S. He added that at the time of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Moscow had some 20,000 troops in Cuba and remnants of that force have remained there ever since. According...
...imagine the burden on the farms imposed by this huge influx of new people." The Chinese claim that finding a home for each refugee costs $1,200, a figure that covers the purchase of transportation, agricultural tools, housing and food. As a result, Peking has taken the unprecedented step of asking the U.N. for financial help in resettling the refugees who are still in the camps and those who are expected to arrive in the future. The Chinese also want the U.N. to process the applications of those who may qualify for emigration to other countries...
...member church group was formed in 1977 to propose to the Prime Minister two names, in order of preference, to fill each bishop vacancy. Runcie is the first Archbishop of Canterbury to be selected this way, rather than through a series of political consultations. The new procedure is a step toward fuller independence of the established English church from the machinery of state, something Runcie favors...
...that's not your goal, you shouldn't even step on the field," he says. Crazy you say? Not really--just enthusiastic...