Word: steps
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...necessary first step toward unity, suggests Conservative Rabbi Seymour Siegel of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, is a recovery of Judaism's ancient tolerance. In the 1st century B.C., for example, the Sadducees and Pharisees and the rabbinical schools of Hillel and Shammai differed bitterly in their interpretations of the law; yet they did not seek to exile opponents from the ranks of accepted Judaism. Siegel concludes that in today's Judaism there can be no single interpretation-which means that Orthodoxy in particular must surrender its exclusive claim to represent true Jewry...
...Federal Reserve Board could not reduce the rate of monetary expansion without disrupting the nation's economy, if only because the demand for capital is so intense. Thus the board has little room to tighten money further without kicking up the discount rate once again. That is a step which a majority of the board opposes, partly because it would stir up a political tempest, and partly because quite a few financial men recognize that the upward pressures on the economy are easing...
Giap was an accomplished lecturer in French history who "could step to a blackboard and draw in the most minute detail every battle plan of Napoleon," one of his former students recalls. A passionate ascetic who could veer abruptly from violent emotion to icy control, he was early dubbed "The volcano and the snow" by his associates. "We were all intrigued," says one, "by his passion for Napoleon and the French Revolution. And we used to tease him when he railed against the French, by asking 'Are you sure you don't want to be Napoleon?' " Giap...
...their presence, bombs from the omnipresent fleet of 1,000 U.S. planes wheeling through the Viet Nam skies. As a result, in many a village the Viet Cong are no longer welcome, and some 900,000 villagers have fled V.C.-controlled areas. The Reds have been forced to step up taxation, rice levies and recruitment in areas they control, reaching down even to 14-year-olds to keep up their 3,500-men-a-month draftee rate in South Viet Nam. Once there was a kind of care free banditry to Viet Congmanship; increasingly, it is a grim...
...will accomplish these reforms in medical education? There is no easy answer, but the University today is probably a more liberal force than the Colleges representing the specialties. It would be a progressive step if medical schools became more strongly identified with the University environment, for not only would this profit the student, but it might also allow a more objective look at the problems of medical care in this nation.Dr. ROBERT H. EBERT: 'Rather than one curriculum there should be several responsive to the different interests and backgrounds of students. We are educating mn for a variety of careers...