Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next Step. Five days later, as U.S. officials probed the back corridors of diplomacy for confirmation, a North Vietnamese diplomat in Paris confirmed that Hanoi's position had indeed changed. Summoning Paris-based Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Correspondent Bernard Redmont to the North Vietnamese mission, the diplomat, according to the reporter, said that if the bombings stop, peace talks will begin; he made no mention of Hanoi's repeated demand that the bombing pause must be permanent. "The next step," he told Redmont, "is up to President Johnson...
...letter to the ew York Times printed yesterday Gottfried Haberler, Galen L. Stone professor of International Trade said that the measures are "a further big step into the mass of specific controls that used to be called the Schachtian system, named after its inventor, the Nazi economic wizard Hjalmar Schacht...
There is a lesson in that. Right now, with or without reforms, the one vital step that every citizen can take is to cough up a small campaign contribution in support of the party, principle or candidate that means the most to him. Only if millions of Americans come to the aid of their principles in election year 1968 will their parties truly reflect their wishes and flourish as free institutions...
There is a strategy planning period in between each step of the game, and this is when the TV audience gets to take part. Questions are posed by the Transanian ministers, and the political elite is asked to phone in their decisions. Transania generally follows their advice, making them active participants in a real sense. And the television viewers get almost as involved as the players: the one time when their advice was disregarded, they phoned in and demanded impeachment of their ministers...
...temperament without understanding his extraordinary family. Using unpublished papers, Allen weaves a rich account of the restless, tightly knit clan. As for William, his character is best expressed in his own words: "My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will. I will go a step further with my will, not only act with it, but believe as well; believe in my individual reality and creative power." That power was constantly being sapped by physical and mental illnesses. That he overcame them to produce such works as The Will to Believe, The Varieties of Religious Experience...