Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to Rumania seem like an anti-Soviet gesture. "Eastern Europe, after all," says one man close to the President, "is central to the issue of East-West peace." In fact, if there is any likelihood of detente with Russia, with the upcoming disarmament talks as a first step, Nixon's next major mission may well be to Moscow...
...causa is Chavez's whole life; for it, he has impoverished himself and endangered his health by fasting. In soft, slow speech, he urges his people?nearly 5,000,000 of them in the U.S.?to rescue themselves from society's cellar. As he sees it, the first step is to win the battle of the grapes...
Still, most Peruvians seemed at first look to feel that the junta, for better or for worse, had taken a significant step in the effort to solve a problem that besets not only Peru but most of Latin America...
...inflation, and 46% criticized it. The survey made clear that Americans believe that inflation has become a personal crisis for everybody, but few are willing to endure real personal sacrifices to curb it. By a vote of 79% to 6%, people who were polled thought that the most urgent step necessary is to cut federal spending-even though few individuals would be wiuirg to reduce any Government spending that reaches their own pocketbooks. Surprisingly, those polled favored wage-and-price controls by 50% to 26%; practically every economist has damned such controls as unworkable. By a big margin, the respondents...
...spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes--in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step, I began to absorb the issues of the strike--ROTC, Afro-American Studies, expansion--and could see nothing objectionable and a lot of good in the positions staked out by the first mass meeting...