Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon summoned Hershey to the White House yesterday afternoon and after a 50 minute conference announced through a press aide that Hershey will step out and be replaced by a civilian...
...results not only were successful for Germany but also moved the world a long step toward a much-needed reform of the monetary system. The reform should open the way for fewer wrenching devaluations of currencies and greater flexibility in the prices at which they are bought and sold...
...parents now chain their baby carriages to guard against theft. Construction has slowed so drastically that of 6,000 new apartments planned for this year, fewer than 100 have been completed. Because of a lack of coal, the government has reduced supplies available to schools and homes-a harsh step as cold weather approaches-and has cut electricity to "nonvital" industries...
...thirds of them give priority to the home market because, the report said, "the people are not selective." The men in charge of the economy vigorously protest the refusal of the U.S. to grant Czechoslovakia most-favored-nation tariff treatment. By stimulating sales to the U.S., such a step could give the Czechoslovaks a psychological as well as an economic lift...
...proposed by Economist Ota Sik. As Deputy Prime Minister under Dubček, Sik initiated far-reaching decentralization and began rapidly to modernize the economy, particularly in consumer industries that had suffered from decades of neglect. Sik also hoped to get $400 million in credits from the West, a step that would have relieved Czechoslovakia of some of its heavy dependence on the Soviets for markets and raw materials...