Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operation just four months, the $12 million venture is moving only 20,000 tons of cargo a month, but Costa predicts that volume will at least triple by 1970. As much sense as Rivalta Scrivia makes, many of Genoa's stodgier merchants have characteristically fought its development every step of the way. But Costa is determined to see it through. "For too long we have regarded the port as a place to make money," says he. "The time has come to begin thinking about what service we can offer." And of course making more money in the process...
Life's Circularity. It requires a patient reader to keep from feeling that he has been marching through Borges in circles. But, like all compelling writers, Borges makes the march profoundly worthwhile; the traveler may find himself unconsciously adapting to the author's concentric step...
Last month's plan is a step in the right direction, but more a political maneuver than a blueprint for the educational advancement of Boston's Negroes in the public schools. It is laudable that the School Committee is no longer refusing to count the number of Negroes in its schools and will begin to consider the effect of locating new schools and the redrawing of district lines on hastening the total integration of the city's educational system. More important, the settlement between the School Committee and the State Board should deprive Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, who fought...
...Democratic Central Committee and the Washington Home Rule Committee have already endorsed the plan as a "step toward home rule." This conclusion is perhaps an effect of the predominantly legalistic thrust of the home-rule movement to date. It has not sought political organization among D.C. citizens. Those who speak for the home-rule movement, therefore, do not occupy a vantage point from which they could see the incongruity of a "step toward home rule" which continues and extends the preeminence of Federal politics in District government. The top city officials under the new plan, Presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed...
...Harvard professorship in Canadian Studies was announced yesterday as the first step toward a full program of Canadian Studies...