Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldwater told the 2500 people who filled Loew's Theatre here that the West's critical error in Berlin was allowing the wall separating the two sectors the city to be built. "The decision to push over that wall would have been silly," he admitted, "but we would have emereged the victors...
...University Health Services, in Cooperation with similar groups at Tufts, B.U. and M.I.T., has decided that there is no need to push the panic button. Flu epidemic scares come up every year and Prout has the whole scare as a "little bit of crying wolf." At any rate, the disease itself is not serious and usually for no more than four days...
...Sewell Avery's ironhanded management, is as yet reaping no profit from Barr's costly drive to open new stores. Last year the company earned only $15 million-a 50% drop from the previous year. Brooker, a master at merchandising, is expected to give Ward a sales push that has been badly lacking under Lawyer Barr...
...John Harris Ward, 53, moves in as chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., the nation's third largest public utility. He succeeds Willis D. Gale, 62, who becomes chairman of the executive committee. Harvard-educated (class of '30), Ward intends to push Commonwealth Edison further into household electric heating and the uses of automated machinery. His reasoning: "The more industry uses these wonderful gadgets, the more electricity is consumed...
Unprofitable as it may be, however, a contract to operate a plant cafeteria generally carries with it the right to operate cigarette, candy, coffee and soft-drink machines. To hang onto these highly lucrative concessions, the vending operators have been obliged to push ahead with hot food service. The result has been an industry shakeout so violent that in the past two years, more than 300 of the nation's 6,000 vending companies have either gone out of business or have been absorbed by emerging industry giants that have the capital and facilities to survive...