Word: steps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...step in this direction, Eliav, who is a Cambridge-educated specialist in village planning, urges that Israel "should start tackling the Arab-refugee problem with those refugees already in our hands. We already are a little late." For example, he suggests that a vocational-education network be established for Arab children, that new towns and new farms be set up for the refugees...
...First step is putting the material together and tying it tightly in variations of five basic shapes, known as rosettes, bunches, gathers, pleats and marblings. String or dental floss can be used to tie it, but elastic is best, as it is not permeated by the dye and can be easily snipped free. The fabric is then immersed in the simmering (not boiling) dye solution and kept there for a length of time that varies with the material; cotton, for instance, soaks up the dye slowly, while silk takes it quickly. Next, the fabric is rinsed in cold water...
Press Council. The report's most sweeping proposal is that a press council, independent of the media and Government (but without disciplinary powers), be set up as a public watchdog for all news outlets. Describing this as "a first step toward government over-lordship," the New York Daily News cried: "The late Adolf Hitler and Dr. Joe Goebbels would have loved that." The suggestion hardly goes that far, but there are two important counts against it. Such bodies rarely prove effective and, in this particular case, the council's independence might be suspect because its members would initially...
...kinds of obscure and "dangerous" entanglements. There is a chauvinistic and frankly-snobbish reaction to the notion of any part of Harvard being contaminated by "Professional Sports," with the heavy suggestion that, once this ogre gets his foot in the door. Las Vegas-in-Cambridge is only a step away...
...them. I think that the ones I've met are very well read. They are generally much less irascible than I. They're usually more calm than I and they are not as emotional as I am, perhaps. They are a very dedicated people, and very religious. Their first step is to say "I am going to lose my fear of death before I join this movement." Their second step is to consider themselves as a seed. (As Jesus said, "The seed has to fall to the ground and die or remain by itself alone.") They have a deep belief...