Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week postponement of the immigration bill as a point of personal privilege, and Ev's allies talked darkly of demanding full-blown hearings that might well postpone reforms in the immigration law until next year. Dirksen was adamant. Said he: "If these young Turks think they can push me around, they're badly mistaken. I've got some rights around here, and I know how to use them...
...which is, and Little Pleasures, an ice cream and sweets parlor. Soup's On is a restaurant offering a big bowl of the stuff, a hunk of French bread and coffee for a buck, while Chances R and its sister restaurant across the street (called Across the Street) push a ton of hamburger and give away half a ton of peanuts every week...
...good enough to attract the attention of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, who was looking for somebody to design him a golf course and teach him the game. Sobel packed off to India. "His Royal Highness was a pretty vain fellow," Ross recalls, "so I decided not to push my luck. I laid out a nine-hole course that was only 2,800 yds. long and didn't have a single hazard. That was long before the days of golf carts, of course, but the maharajah didn't walk a step. He rode in a howdah...
...average (up a modest 1.9% from a year earlier), largely because of the higher costs of auto insurance, home ownership and meat. Without the recent federal excise tax cuts-75% to 80% of which have been passed on to the consumer-the index would have pushed even higher. Wholesale prices rose to a new record in July, gaining 2.5% over a year ago. Raw-material prices have risen 10% in the past year, helping push up the average of industrial prices by 1.4%. Economists find none of these increases alarming, but each of them means higher costs for someone...
...account for more than 50% of U.S. employment-the first time that this has happened in any country. Such factors as capacity level and plant investment need not be considered in raising the price of services such as haircuts or dry cleaning, and labor costs in this area push through much faster to price boosts...