Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, a big step was taken last November under an arbitration award by a panel created by the Congress. It granted carriers the right to eliminate gradually 90% of the firemen on diesels, along with unneeded trainmen, including some brakemen and switchmen. This reduction of up to 40,000 employees would save the carriers about $325 million a year. The unions have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...said that the Democratic Party is a marriage of convenience, while the Republican Party comes closer to being a marriage of common interest. Despite this intrinsic unity, the Republican Party frequently has managed to present itself as an organization split by a conservative-liberal animosity. The first step to unity is for the Republican Party to understand clearly what has happened to it in the past 30 years...
Such a policy, I am convinced, could be the first step toward waging a new political change. It would give the Republican Party its best chance of regaining the political majority because: 1) its potential of solving a problem without handing over excessive authority to the central Government is something the vast majority of Republicans would embrace; 2) the Republican Party would then be clearly positive in its approach; 3) such an approach is the pragmatic way of actually getting this country moving...
...their nuclear ballistic missiles. But the Russians have left behind an impressive array of "defensive" hardware: battalions of tanks, hundreds of mobile nonnuclear FROGs (free-rocket-overground) with a 30-mile range, about 60 supersonic MIG-21 jet fighters and more than 100 antiaircraft SAM rockets. Ready to step in at the 25 SAM sites around the island are Cuban crews, who have had more than a year of training under Soviet instructors. There is some evidence that the Russians are pulling out their most sophisticated radar tracking systems, leaving the Cubans with second-rate equipment. Nevertheless, the SAMs remain...
...From this," Dr. Dameshek told the New York Academy of Sciences, "it is only a step to the thought that autoimmune reactions and certain types of leukemia might occur simultaneously, and in fact be one and the same thing." What makes this possibility especially intriguing is the fact that no "cause" of leukemia is known, though there is increasing evidence that it may be triggered by a virus...