Word: steps
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...rebuil[d] its foundations.” Saturated with spending projections for health care, carbon-emissions caps, and education, the budget also prudently identifies funding sources, turning what may have been a blunt instrument into a refined tool. In short, the budget is another excellent step toward economic recovery...
Despite the passion of the debate and the divisions it revealed, Chan, Collins, Flynn, and Shafrin all said they thought the discussion was a positive step for BGLTSA...
...Phoenix” titled “1901” can be taken as any evidence, the stylish and exacting pop sound that has become characteristic of Phoenix has been overhauled, replaced by a recognizable, though notably rougher and more electronic style.The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have taken it one step further on their recently leaked follow-up to 2006’s “Show Your Bones.” Not only does “It’s Blitz!” sport objectively kick-ass album art, it reveals a band that has jettisoned...
...stars got a lot of pats on the back,” Steiker says, “but those who weren’t, didn’t feel sufficiently appreciated.”By switching to a pass/fail grading system last fall, Kagan says she has taken a step toward reducing the perceived level of competition—though students acknowledge that competition is a way of life at Harvard. For her part, Kagan calls her student body “extraordinary” and a “privilege to teach.” Her willingness to hear...
...Word of the new White House drawdown plan, which Obama officially announced on Friday morning in a speech at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, was greeted with shrugs of contentment by most Iraqi political figures, largely because the Obama plan appears to be in step with what Iraqis had expected as a result of the Status of Forces Agreement signed by the Maliki government and the Bush Administration last December. That agreement requires most U.S. combat troops to be off the streets of Iraq by this summer and all U.S. troops to have left the country by 2011. (See pictures...