Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East 102nd Street project looks tiny. U.S. Gypsum views it as a wedge into a $30 billion market in rehabilitating slums across the nation. "We saw possibilities of opening up a market that is completely dormant," says Gypsum's market-programs manager, Jerry Pintoff. "Somebody had to step in and hope to create what wasn't there." ^ With Profits. Whether or not U.S. Gypsum's initiative will inspire more big companies to take similar steps, the arithmetic of the project is persuasive. Gypsum's purchase and remodeling of the first building cost only...
...their greenbacks for U.S. gold, a move that would cause a run on the dollar. They keep pointing out, however, that the U.S. could and should do more to balance its books. Said Bundesbank President Karl Blessing last week: "The raising of the discount rate last December was a step in this direction. A tax increase would also be such a step...
Throughout the entire Puget Sound area, stretching 140 miles from Tacoma through Seattle, Everett and Bellingham to the Canadian border, the land where settlers thought they had found a paradise, with sheltered waterways on the front step and mountains in the backyard, is bursting with new indus try. Already, natives are dubbing it Pugetopolis. Said Washington Governor Daniel Evans last week: "In our state's history, the present expansion is second in significance only to that during the gold rush...
...that the Committee dumped huge blocs of athletes or any other category of freshmen into particular Houses. Just the same, the system was an unsuccessful experiment, failing to balance the claims of student preference against those of the Houses' welfare. The Committee should continue to experiment, but the first step must be an upgrading of choice in next year's plan...
...Bunting suggested some possible solutions. She said the College might ask the elevator company to postpone the noisier work until summer (the first step is demolition): students might be able to use dormitory rooms or rooms in the Graduate Center if the noise became unbearable...