Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maneuvering until one side won enough supporters from the independent center parties to try to form a government. In the less likely event of a severe loss at the polls by his party, Charles De Gaulle would most probably interpret the results as a repudiation of his rule and step down from the presidency. "The people must speak," De Gaulle told his Ministers, adding pointedly: "We must draw the consequences...
...workers-often ahead of their own union leaders-sensed an opportunity to turn the disorder to their own economic advantage, and the strikes and sit-ins began. From the discovery of their ability to bring the government to heel in money matters, it was only a short, logical step to the demand for worker power in political terms. But the evidence is that it was a step not taken by the great majority of French workers. Only a vocal few, in protest against their long history of being flattened to a single dimension by their unions as well as management...
Baker was a front-runner in the mile, fighting for the lead over the first three quarters with Villanova's Charlie Messenger and Frank Murphy. With one lap to go. Baker was a step behind Murphy...
...first move came three weeks ago from Texas-based University Computing Co., which attempted to acquire Western Union with a tender offer for a controlling 10% of W.U. stock. The offer sent the stock from $35 a share to $44.88 and prompted other prospective buyers to step up their efforts. Last week Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., which is about one-sixth as big as Western Union, made a better bid. After marathon negotiations in New York and Washington between Chairman-President Russell W. McFall of Western Union and Founder-Chairman Fletcher Jones of Computer Sciences...
...because they want very different kinds of subsidies. Friedman and the conservatives would like to enact a subsidy as an excuse for axing other welfare programs; while Galbraith and the liberals believe that the poor deserve a greater share of the nation's wealth, and want the government to step in and offset the effects of unequal opportunities...