Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aides some of the issues that will face his administration: the city's $200 million deficit, his plans to streamline the government, appointments to key posts. He even found time to slip away to the City Athletic Club, where he took a swim, did two sets of 20 push-ups and had a steam bath. One of his early goals as mayor is to renovate the gym in city hall-a facility rarely used during previous administrations...
...present peace push stems from several indications of increased willingness to negotiate which came from Hanoi late this fall. At the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in October, the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Mr. Janos Peter, informed Secretary Rusk that North Vietnam would come to the bargaining table if American bombing raids were suspended. The Russians conveyed a similar message through the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, Foy Kohler. Finally, editorials in Nhan Dan, the official Hanoi newspaper, indicated that North Vietnam would no longer insist on the withdrawal of American troops as a precondition to peace talks...
...wish to push the point too far. Though the New Left and New Right use a very similar critique of the Liberal Establishment, they disagree profoundly, and perhaps irreconcilably, when it comes to proposals and affirmations...
...rise in social security taxes for medicare (offset in part by another $1.6 billion excise-tax reduction). The other is a rise in prices-generally about 3% -that will be most noticeable on such items as jewelry, furs and leather goods; last week higher costs of goods and services pushed the consumer price index to a new high of 110.6. With consumers both affluent and confident, even these rises are likely to be offset by another phenomenon of the consumption economy: greater credit spending. Installment credit has risen to $66.8 billion, but consumers are paying their bills promptly, thereby making...
Production Cutbacks. The push for industry is centered in a new 9,000-acre manufacturing city called Jurong that has been hacked out of mangrove swamps and jungled hills. So far, 47 factories there make products ranging from ships and socks to tires and toothpaste, and another 16 plants are abuilding. But the factories were designed to supply the federation's 11 million customers, and since the breakup Malaysia has erected high tariff walls against Singapore-made goods. Result: most factories have cut production drastically, are searching for overseas markets to take up the slack. They are plagued...