Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showed even in his complaints. "I am bombarded with daily problems," he said one day. "I handle dossiers of a burning actuality. Everything is urgent at Matignon [the Premier's office]. But when I arrive at the Élysée, time no longer marches in the same step. Only the topics chosen voluntarily by the general as important are evoked...
...refused admittance to one reading "Crush Capitalism." However, they let another go by reading "Abolish Sweden." In divided Berlin, fog and rain kept most Berliners at home watching competing parades on TV. There were four in all, divided between West and East Berlin. In its typical out-of-step-with-the-times fashion, East Berlin held an old-fashioned military march-past. In Hamburg, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt was heckled by students and greeted with "Sieg Heil!" salutes...
...suppose that if I had rolled a live hand grenade into your office I would have been forgiven because I was protesting against the refurbishment of Memorial Hall. It is actions such as the above by the Faculty and Administration of Harvard College that seems out of step with the harshness with which the University dealt with others and myself. Not only does this make your admissions policy suspect, a policy with which I have had some sad first-hand knowledge as a teacher and one formerly interested in trying to get good students to go to Harvard...
...credit now allowed businessmen who invest in new productive capacity be repealed. That amounts to a sophisticated redistribution of tax burdens, with business losing and consumers gaining. Recognizing that taxation is a powerful instrument for setting and reaching national goals, the President pledged that the next step would be a "start" on two "high priority programs": tax credits to encourage investment in the turbulent ghettos and the sharing of federal revenues with hard-pressed state and local governments...
...students on the Corporation the next logical step? No. The Corporation is already straining to run efficiently. Calkins says. Add more people and it will never get its business done. The men who fly in every other week to meet in Massachusetts Hall are busy, and an overblown Corporation would probably drive them all away...