Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This speculation points to domestic turmoil as the impetus for foreign adventure. But, Ullman and others fail to venture one step further...
...hand we have Moral Reasoning. This year, for the first time in recent memory, a class will be offered on Confucian thought. Clearly, this is a step in the right direction, given that every other Moral Reasoning course is very white, overwhelmingly male and extremely dead...
Last week it was learned that U.S. and Soviet negotiators in Geneva took a major step toward verification arrangements several weeks ago, when they agreed on inspection controls for the elimination of chemical weapons. American officials welcomed the accord as further evidence that after decades of failure, enormous progress is being made across the board on the thorny verification issues so central to all arms control...
...step would have been unthinkable a few decades ago, when Poland's Communist bosses did not hesitate to put Roman Catholic Primate Stefan Wyszynski under house arrest, imprison hundreds of priests and nuns, or confiscate scores of schools and convents. But last week all that was swept aside with a long-awaited, historic announcement. Resuming a "noble tradition of many centuries," the Holy See and Poland have re-established diplomatic relations, declared the official church communique, delicately omitting mention of less-than-noble events during the protracted ecclesiastical cold war with the nation's leaders that began...
...period will be short-lived and will be followed by renewed growth, a scenario that has them searching for metaphors. David Hale, chief economist of Chicago's Kemper Financial Services, characterizes the slowdown as an "output pause." Geoffrey Moore, an economics professor at Columbia University, talks of a "stutter step." Economist Lyle Gramley, a former Fed governor, says that by late 1990 the slowdown may be followed by a period of "economic refreshment...