Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limiting inflationary tendencies. Increased real income, not decreased monetary income should be the goal. Special loan funds or accelerated amortization might be used to expand production by facilitating capital development in sectors of future importance to the economy. More basically, the government should consider actions necessary to halt "cost-push" inflation by a re-examination of our labor and anti-trust policies, so that competition can be restored to markets in which industry-wide wage increases are granted because price increases can follow at the employers' will. The Administration must reconsider its reliance on tight money as the major tool...
...last May after having lasted longer than any other since the war. Mollet offered a grim, emergency program of raised taxes and slashed government expenditures, finally won a tentative promise from Antoine Pinay's rightists to abstain rather than vote against him on his own promise not to push any Socialist programs. Mollet also demanded a new system of voting in the Assembly to stabilize government tenure. His reform would allow the Assembly to bring the government down only by an absolute majority vote on motions specifically aimed at its fitness, would force the Deputies to face...
COMMUTER SUBSIDY for money-losing rail and bus lines is getting a push in high places. New England Governors' Committee on Public Transportation urges municipal and state governments to subsidize commuter business to cover losses, warns "this remedy seems necessary if commuter services are to be maintained...
CANDY CRAZE is biting into the diet craze, to the relief of candy makers. After candy-eating dropped to 16.5 lbs. per person in 1954, sudden upsurge this year will push consumption to near-record...
Although one episode in the Syrian-Turkish conflict seems to have passed without producing much more than frayed nerves, the difficulties have only begun. The coming debate in the United Nations may only serve to push Syria even further into the Russian grasp, unless the United States reconsiders its policy in the Middle East...