Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Kennedy was planning, though he did not say so in his speech, was a two-step approach: first, tax reduction paying lip service to reform; then, perhaps much later, real reform, sweetened with additional cuts. Concluded the President: "A high order of statesmanship and determination will be required if the possible is not to wait on the perfect. But a nation capable of marshaling these qualities to meet a sudden and dramatic threat to its security is surely equally capable of meeting a creeping and complex threat to our economic vitality...
...going hard. When Castro defiantly declared himself a "Marxist-Leninist," he alienated most Latin American governments and lost much of his popular support among workers and educated idealists. Some woolly-headed university students and leftists still naively regarded him as a made-in-Cuba revolutionary simply marching in voluntary step with the Communist world. But after Khrushchev dealt directly with Kennedy on the Cuban missiles, bypassing Castro as an unimportant puppet, the Cuban dictator lost even those supporters. Latin American leftists have been bitterly disowning both Castro and Communism ever since...
...news with stony-faced indifference, and seemed bone-tired as he bowed to the inevitable. Next morning the deputies of his party were hastily assembled. Floor Leader Heinrich von Brentano announced that Adenauer had, in effect, agreed to one of the key Free Democratic conditions: he would step down as Chancellor next fall. Brentano then drew cheers by adding that Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard would be included in all discussions on the new government's constitution, clear indication that Erhard-West Germany's idol, and Adenauer's belittled foe-would very likely be the next Chancellor...
...seemed a step forward. But when Iran's tradition-bound Moslem mullahs got wind of the plan, they flatly rejected it as "not in keeping with Islamic law." Already under intense pressure from the mullahs, who fear the government's land-reform program will affect their vast lands, Premier Assadollah Alam finally yielded. Last week Alam suspended the decree, and Iran's unveiled women remained unfranchised as well...
...play matchmaker, her to let students match them Jewett commented last week. step was to subdivide the class basis of what freshmen said about on the questionnaire...