Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone to Press. Detroit has developed dozens of other ways to get potential customers to test-drive its products. The auto companies encourage local dealers (often with a $400 rebate) to lend new cars to high school driver-training programs, hoping to win the allegiance of teenagers, also push sales to company car fleets. Lincoln-Mercury executives tour the U.S. to talk about autos to such groups as Rotary Clubs and women's garden clubs, sometimes offer their audiences free use of new Mercurys for a week...
...still far from over. Independent gas suppliers are growing increasingly aggressive; some of them push their products by using beautiful girls as station-to-station salesmen. "Pirate tankers"-large tanker trucks with two full-sized petrol pumps attached to the rear-now tour main roads to sell motorists cut-rate gas as they speed to work or sporting events. Roadside operators have also begun to buy "distress lots" of ungraded gas and sell it cheaply under such names as "Zoom" and "Whoosh." Some of it is only 60 octane, hardly enough to run a sewing machine-but the British motorist...
...Jimmy Hoffa have tarnished the image of the crusading labor leader. Admittedly, during the 1964 campaign, Lyndon Johnson valued union support sufficiently to commit himself to repeal of 14(b). But, well aware that few Americans these days are impassioned over Taft-Hartley, the President did little to push his bill on Capitol Hill...
...longer and lower-cost mortgage loans and will provide easier federal financing for higher-priced homes and raw land In addition, the number of Americans who will marry and enter the housing market will jump this year from 800,000 to 1,200,000, thus giving a badly needed push to the housing market...
Master Finley feels that the CEP plan represents a departmental takeover of the Gen Ed program. We do not think so, although one aspect of the CEP plan would give the Gen Ed system a firm push towards the departments. This is the requirement that a student who wishes to fulfill the requirement at the upper level do so by taking a sequence of courses--first a departmental course and then a closely-rleated upper-level Gen Ed course...