Word: pushed
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Curses for Friends. Last week a touch of mass schizophrenia rubbed off on West Berliners. Normally they are a cynical, cocksure breed who thumb their noses at trouble. "Mir kann keener," they brag in the local dialect. "No one can push me around." In 17 years as a cockpit of the cold war, West Berlin has usually reacted more coolly to its recurring alarums than Washington or Whitehall. Even the Wall seemed barely to have dented the city's composure...
...restrain competition in the bowling industry, and a slowdown in its military contracting helped to cut AMF's first half-year sales 11%, to $185 million. Burgess, once president of Trans World Airlines, was an Eisenhower era Assistant Secretary of Defense, joined AMF in 1958. Burgess intends to push new consumer products, including an auto exhaust filter which, if certified, would become one of two competing antismog systems mandatory on all cars in California...
...newborn subsidiary is International Life Insurance Co. ; Cornfeld's agents will push policies as well as funds...
...Labor Department's consumer price index shows that there have been recent reductions in the prices of new cars, tires, gasoline, refrigerators and other household appliances. While the cost-of-living index has edged up a bit more than 1% in the past year, most of that push has come from higher prices for services (see chart), such as medical care (up 3%) and public transportation (up 4%). Consumers are still clamoring for an increasing quantity of services, and are apparently still willing to pay handsomely for them. Service prices are high, partly because people are willing...
Challenge for Competitors. Private U.S. money is now helping Siemens to push the biggest expansion program in its history. In the first major private loan by U.S. financiers to a German firm since the war. a group of twelve lending institutions headed by Morgan Stanley and Arnhold & Bleichroeder have lent Siemens $25 million as part of its two-year, $250 million expansion (much of which will be paid for out of profits). With expanded plant, Siemens intends to give stiffer competition in world markets to its three bigger U.S. competitors−General Electric. Western Electric and Westinghouse...