At the same time, the United States will continue other efforts to address the problem of land mines, including our work to establish step-by-step negotiations toward a global ban in the Conference on Disarmament.
History: "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " by Fredrik Logevall (Random House), a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.
It builds on the strong first step taken by the Federal Reserve toward improving disclosures and ending unfair practices.
"The results suggests that home cooks and restaurants could take an easy step toward obesity prevention by adding more fruits and vegetables and trimming the fat to decrease energy density without having to serve tiny portions, " she said.
Ford Motor ( F - news - people ) announced it would be offering buyout or retirement incentive packages to all 41, 000 of its hourly, United Automobile Workers-represented workers in the U.S. The company is trying to reduce payroll costs as a step toward regaining profitability by 2011.
It was hailed by several scientists as a step toward producing the first man-made organism that, according to Venter, could as soon as five years from now help solve global warming by reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.
U.K. supermarket giant Tesco took a step toward that idea in 2008 by putting carbon footprint labels on products it sells.
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Many analysts see this unilateral act by the FARC as the first step toward an eventual peace accord with the government of President Alvaro Uribe.
Long before the current era of computers, the inventor Blaise Pascal designed a mechanical calculator in 1642 -- regarded by many as the first decisive step toward modern microprocessors.
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Plus, FX already took a step toward successfully reviving the anthology format by launching American Horror Story, a drama with close-ended seasons.
The agreement establishes a 29-member interim cabinet headed by Karzai, meant as the first step toward a broad-based government representing the range of Afghanistan's ethnic groups and regions.
And Bush took an even bolder step toward shoring up his centrist credibility Tuesday by wooing that new beacon of centrism -- John McCain.
This first step toward regulated ingestible sensors will undoubtedly be followed by others.
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Now Switzerland is taking another step toward full transparency in financial and banking rules by launching two consultation drafts.
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President Obama took an important first step toward stimulating economic activity in the startup sector by signing the JOBS Act in April.
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Amazon Cloud, for instance, is considered by many in the industry to be a first step toward a more ambitious offering that Amazon could create once it has licenses in place.
By upholding the mandate under the taxing power, they say, the Court has allowed the health care law to stand, but has also taken an important step toward limiting the power of the federal government by ruling, for only the third time since the FDR administration, that Congress exceeded its power under the commerce clause.
As a further step toward becoming provider of services rather than hardware, by next year NCR will use Sun's version of Unix on its higher- priced servers.
This summer, new fee disclosure notices that more clearly break down plan fees were sent out by 401k providers, and indeed, they are a solid step toward transparency and empowerment.
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"This program takes on a number of power-related challenges and ultimately will allow the Marine Corps to take a big step toward its goal of using fuel only for mobility purposes by 2025, " said H.
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This will be another step toward Afghans taking full lead for their security as agreed to by 2014 when the ISAF combat mission will end.
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By making his retirement official this week, Shaq took the first step toward his next challenge, a much tougher one: becoming one of the great retired athlete marketers.
Toward the end of the book, Larry provides an excellent step-by-step guide to portfolio building using a passive approach.
We are for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we have accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem.
This sale of spectrum is an important step toward ensuring that the needs and desires of consumers for additional mobile services will not be thwarted by the current spectrum shortage.
Obama, meanwhile, took a "major, major step toward cementing the bond between the Latino community and the Democratic Party in an active way" by stopping the deportations, according to Schiller.
The firm recently made headlines by showing that the genome of one bacteria species could be transplanted into a similar one--a step toward making a germ with entirely man-made genes.
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