Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somehow the industry must be helped to cut its costs. One obvious step is tighter state driver-licensing-or even a federal license for all U.S. drivers. If 20% of the country's drivers lost their licenses, says the Stanford Research Institute, the accident rate would go down...
...number of interested Greeks, including King Constantine in his Rome exile, were poring over a very limited printing. It was a draft of the new Greek constitution that the junta led by Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos has promised to submit to voters before Sept. 15 as a major step in returning Greece to normal parliamentary rule...
...first step in a 90-day nationwide search for a new manager, the City Council place dadvertisements for applicants in yesterday's Times and Washington Post. Prospective applicants will be required to have a bachelor's degree (preferably a degree in public administration) and five year's experience in municipal management...
...musicians who were protesting a cut in state subsidies for opera. A few weeks ago, he outraged the New York musical establishment by vehemently rejecting any possibility that he might become Leonard Bernstein's successor as conductor of the New York Philharmonic. "Artistically it would not be a step up for me," he said. "My orchestra is better than the New York Philharmonic." To compound the offense, he added that New York's musicians "step over conductors"-thus expressing publicly what many young conductors feel privately: that the New Yorkers, while gifted, are also notorious for their supreme...
Neiman-Marcus is one of the first retailers to take such a step in the area of buying practices, and civil rights groups responded approvingly. "The announcement will have a salutary effect," said John A. Morsell, assistant executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "Assuring equal employment opportunity cannot be made the exclusive business of government, and one would think that businessmen would insist upon a major role for business also." Some retailers were less enthusiastic. "This type of action should not fall into the private sector," said Martin B. Kohn, chairman of Baltimore's Hochschild, Kohn & Co. and president...