Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program organized by Yale, Harvard and Columbia for 120 Negro students this summer is an encouraging first step in using northern universities to upgrade southern education. Officials at the three schools hope to increase the number of Negro students going on to graduate school by supplementing the preparation they receive at southern colleges. Stressing humanities and social sciences, the program will enrich summer school courses with special tutorials; it will expose the Negro students to the complicated process of admission at northern graduate schools, and return them to colleges in the south with more ambitious ideas about undergraduate education...
...Supreme Court, sputtered Louisiana's Attorney General Jack Gremillion, had taken yet "another step in the total destruction of the rights of states to regulate their internal affairs." Worse, he said, that step "also will undoubtedly lead to universal suffrage...
...Army troops that had arrived in Rumania 14 years earlier under General Rodion Malinovsky were finally pulled out. By 1961, when the ideological debate between Moscow and Peking had escalated to raucous polemics, Rumania and the rest of Eastern Europe were ready to move. Rumania took the first step by stubbornly refusing to play the role assigned to it in COMECON-the Red Common Market. Moscow wanted Rumania to continue its traditional function of gas station and breadbasket to the Communist world. Rumania refused...
...bold step: it scathingly denounced its own economic policies of the past 20 years. In the works was an entirely new economic model-aimed at decentralizing the economy and stimulating production through a combination of incentives and labor-force reduction. That would mean carrying workers as unemployed-anathema to Marxists. It would also be a threat to central planning. Unfortunately, old-line functionaries, anxious to preserve their jobs and perquisites, have dug in. Pointing to a modest upturn in the lagging Czech economy (the result of a peak investment cycle), the purists have stalemated a large part...
...light bulb, which radiates in all directions and consists of a whole spectrum of colors, light waves from a laser are highly disciplined or "coherent." They are of only one color-which means that they are all of the same frequency. And they all emerge from the laser in step-in phase with each other and traveling along precisely parallel lines...