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One is that Al Gore will announce today, at King's church in Atlanta, a 17 percent DOJ budget increase that if approved by Congress would mean a stepped-up anti-discrimination emphasis in such areas as fair-housing laws and police misconduct investigations.
And his stepped-up shoes?”
The Times points out that Russia's technical assistance raises fears of a stepped-up arms race between India and Pakistan, against whom India has fought three wars, and which has just tested a nuclear-capable missile of its own.
I found law school discussions concerning the concept of "basis" or "stepped-up basis" to be about as easy to follow as the rule against perpetuities.
The top of the LAT front page features a large photo-and-graphic box addressing the stepped-up rate of deportations by the INS of illegal immigrants--last year about 111,000, an increase of about 60 percent over the year before.