Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developed mechanical trouble. His speeches are studded with more specific proposals than previously. He talks in terms of giving the President emergency powers to deal with malnutrition among the poor, and has come out for an international arms-control plan that calls on the U.S. to take the first step unilaterally. He would have the U.S. halt deployment of new offensive and defensive nuclear missiles...
...hopes, are temporary measures, but he fully intends to keep the reins tight on the unions. He plans to start taxing unused land on Uruguay's huge ranches and to attract new capital with a stable peso. He also threatens to fire unnecessary bureaucrats, but in Uruguay no step involving jobs is quite that easy. There is, however, a measure before Congress that would give superfluous federal employees a year's salary just to quit...
...league baseball games each season (v. 182 pro-football games). Attendance per game in baseball has actually dropped by 2,639 fans over the past 20 years. Donald Deskins, a social scientist at the University of Michigan, says the big problem is that baseball simply is out of step with the times. "It's too slow," says Deskins. "It's not action-oriented...
...link, the threatening steel strike, the tussle over the poverty program. An editorial had some kind words for the U.S.: "The recent increase in activity in Washington and Moscow toward more cordial relations should be welcomed by all Americans." And some sharp words for "selfstyled Leftists who denounce any step toward a detente as a 'betrayal...
...what a big job the heroic Green Berets were doing in Vietnam. At the time of his writing the government was falsely insisting we had only 12,000 technical advisors in Vietnam. In the book, Green Berets lead patrols, scorn their corrupt Vietnamese allies, torture prisoners as the first step in interrogation, chase the enemy across the border into Laos, and even parachute an exclusively American special mission into North Vietnam--acts all that have denied by Washington...