Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missiles. His presumption ignored one fact: if launched from a NATO base on the European continent, a U.S. 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile has, so far as Russia is concerned, all the bang of an ICBM. Last week, in a major policy decision, the Administration decided to push toward allowing NATO that big bang, even if it means changing the McMahon...
...best student is the one who will push himself, and Harvard must provide a framework within which students find encouragement for this sort of activity. Increased requirements and prodding only retard meaningful intellectual development. A reading list and a sheaf of bluebooks cannot produce an educated...
...Thomas appeared every few feet to remind viewers of the "increasing perils." There were hackle-raising scenes of wizened, bedizened village elders carving tribal designs into the backs of young boys in manhood initiation rites, and, water-borne again, Lowell waving "Hi, there" at "wary and suspicious" natives. "We push on, and the navigation grows more dangerous," at last to reach the May River territory-scene of recent festivities where "the hosts ate the guests, 32 of them, keeping their heads for trophies." Thus the high pasha of Pawling shuttled between the exotic and the exasperating, displaying characteristic glimpses...
...stand former Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, now chairman of National Steel Corp., the country's sixth largest steelmaker. Subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver had a thorny question waiting: Since National Steel is operating at 80% capacity v. 98% early in the year, could it not melt customer resistance, push up the operating rates and still maintain profits by cutting prices? Answered Humphrey: "That is what you think. I do not think...
...told, Japan's industrial production may drop as much as 10% this year as a result of the government's campaign. Yet few Japanese see signs that the credit pinch will push the economy into serious deflation. For one thing, Japan's traditionally thrifty industrialists have strong cash reserves to fall back on. While net profits rose 23.1% between June and December 1956, companies increased dividends by only 2.2% (to 14.1%), retained the bulk of their earnings. As for Japan's consumers, heavy savings from past years (12% of disposable income v.7% in the U.S.) plus...