Word: stepping
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Supporters of Proposition 209, California's controversial 1996 ballot initiative ending racial preferences, say cascading is good: it means U.C. applicants are finally being judged on their abilities, not the color of their skin. Advocates go a step further, saying that it even benefits the minority students who end up being turned away by more prestigious campuses. Students are better off, the argument goes, when they attend colleges that match their academic level...
Cavellini said that if the EFZ continued their twelve-step program, they could win the rent control battle. "We will have the victory that we have to have to allow working class people to stay in the city," he said...
BALD EAGLE National symbol no longer on endangered species list. Next step: Propecia...
After losing $410 million in fiscal 1998, which ended Sept. 30, electronic-controls and communications conglomerate Rockwell International took the drastic step of spinning off its semiconductor business into a separate company. It is a giant, with sales of roughly $1.3 billion, or nearly a fifth of Rockwell's total 1998 volume of $6.8 billion. But Rockwell CEO Don Davis insists that the move was necessary to allow Rockwell to concentrate more on its core businesses, principally factory automation and aviation controls. (A possible result of divided attention: Rockwell in 1998 overestimated demand for new high-speed computer modems...
...have bombed to try to stop it if it had meant risking war with Russia. And it is still a policy that tolerates some relativism. Don't, for instance, look for NATO to go righting wrongs in parts of the world like Africa. Clinton's doctrine is also a step up from the Powell doctrine, which offers guidelines for how to behave once the nation is committed to war but no advice about getting involved in the first place...