Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third factor in Ohira's election may have been the support he received from former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, currently on trial for taking bribes from Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Although Tanaka was forced to step down, he still controls a sizeable faction of supporters, Reischauer said, adding he doubts Ohira would have won if Tanaka had swung his support to Fukuda...
...will try to dismiss the group by attacking the ridiculousness of the de-evolutionary theory on a literal level, or by deriding the simplistic dreariness of the less exciting songs, or by laughing at the group's goggles and goofiness. They'll be the losers, because Devo is a step up, not down, the evolutionary scale--at least as far as rock music is concerned...
...social kissing (to be done sparingly) and necktie wearing (to be avoided, if possible), welcomes most of the new manners. He displays an admirable generosity of spirit in allowing women to pick up lunch checks. "I was also delighted," says Morrow, "to give up the little hopping stutter-step necessary to place me on the curbside when walking down the sidewalk with a woman. But I haven't quite abandoned the habit of holding a woman's chair. What I do is place one hand on the back of the chair and then fall into a sort...
...Justice's Wall," about building a fence between parts of the U.S. and Mexico [Oct. 30], I'm having trouble determining which side of the fence the barbarians are on. Have we decided to protect ourselves from the world, or the world from us? Will our next step be two hundred yards of minefield next to the fence...
...wells to be drilled over a period of perhaps 13 years. While the Mexicans do not belong to OPEC, they are able to exact a high price ($13.10 per bbl.) for the oil that they sell, most of which goes to the U.S.; naturally they plan to step up production sharply. In fact they now hope to triple their oil exports to 1 million bbl. a day by 1980. Though that is only about one-seventh of what the Saudis ship every day, it is impressive for a country that a few years ago was importing...