Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seminar does need money. As you know, foundations have the basic policy of giving projects like this a push at birth and then tapering off their gifts, hoping to see the money come from other sources. This is to enable the foundations to give other projects a head start. The enthusiasm the foundations feel for the Seminar has by their own words increased over the years but their policy of grants has been long established and followed...
...that is not a strong argument, since more than 75% of zinc and 50% of lead imports come from Canada and Mexico. In any case, the Tariff Commission can only boost the tariff by about a cent a Ib.; what the miners want is a sliding scale that would push tariffs up as prices fall, something that only Congress can enact...
...savings are net to the U.S. taxpayer. A riffed employee who is a permanent civil servant usually gets slotted (reabsorbed) in Washington. Another can sometimes bump (push out) the man below him, and move down into his job. The bumping process can presumably continue until only the office junior is riffed...
...Associated Press poll, limbered up its offensive for tougher games ahead by rushing and lateral-passing to an easy victory over Purdue University, 37-7. The No. 2 team, Michigan State, overpowered the University of Minnesota, 21-0, to move into the Big Ten's top spot and push its victory streak to 26 straight games, longest of any major college. Unrated Princeton furnished the thriller of the week, drew even with Columbia by scoring on a desperate forward pass with 23 seconds to go, then made the extra point...
After the initial push by the college in providing the organizations with prospects' names, both parties are on their own. "We wish that we could look up each man and urge him to join an organization," explains Huntley, "but there just isn't enough time. Besides, the housing unit the boys live in generally takes care to see that he scrubs...