Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With one bold thrust, Anderson undercut the tax-cut advocates in both the Administration and Congress: he worked out with Rayburn and Johnson an informal understanding that neither side would push for a tax cut without first discussing it with the other side. That understanding, dubbed the "Treaty of the Rio Grande," effectively fenced off the tax-cut issue from partisan politics. Despite widespread clamor, there was no tax cut. The U.S. soon began to pull out of the recession. Anderson believes this was one of the key economic-policy victories of U.S. history...
...notions about their old masters. In 1957 the Muhutus even formed their own political party. The Watutsis in turn also organized, began badgering Brussels to give them autonomy at once while they still had the Muhutus firmly under their thumb. The last thing they wanted was for Brussels to push through its new plan to set up elected parliaments in Ruanda and Urundi and turn the two territories into constitutional kingdoms...
...they do, though they are not often seen in nightclubs. But in modern Italy a priest watching a soccer match-much less a floor show or a movie-is out of bounds. Priests must always wear their cassocks in public, are not supposed to smoke on the street or push baby carriages or carry large parcels, ride horseback except in rural areas, or eat alone at first-class restaurants. A priest should not be seen walking often with the same female-even his aged aunt-and a priest's female housekeeper must be at least 40, the "canon...
...first time October sales have burst through the $18 billion mark. In November's first week, sales in U.S. department stores were running 5% ahead of last year. Retail sales for the first ten months of 1959 total $179.9 billion, 9% above 1958. At that rate, they will push well over $200 billion by year's end, a new alltime record...
Serve Yourself. In France there are close to 3,000 new self-service grocery stores doing so much business that retailers speak of a "commercial revolution." Many of the stores are independently owned and operated, but the biggest push comes from the chains. France's big Félix Potin chain has already turned half of its 96 stores into self-service markets, plans to convert all its stores to self-service by 1961, reports that sales automatically double when customers realize that they can shop faster, more easily and more cheaply at self-service. Two years ago, Paris...