Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happy day for coach Bill McCurdy's varsity. The team had the potential to push Yale for the title, but once the show started, nothing happened. One wonders if the golden days of 1956-57, when the Crimson twice won the Heptagonal crown, are gone forever...
...decade ago economists identifiable as liberals were automatically prolabor, rejected the idea that wage increases could be economically harmful. Today Heller, like most other economists, holds that "excessively generous wage bargains'' between unions and management can lead to "cost-push" price upcreep...
...advanced any farther, though "I cannot guarantee some little curve in a wasteland." He was pessimistic about new negotiations. But he had no plans to try to drive the Chinese out. "While I admire the patriotism, and emotional upsurge of honorable members who tell us to go and push the aggressor out ... it is not an easy matter to indulge in a policy of action that leads almost inevitably, step by step, to war." Nehru admitted that he had not even bothered to reoccupy the border post of Longju in northeastern India, abandoned by the Chinese several months ago. Reason...
...never flown in bad weather before, ditched the tiny plane a few hundred yards off Damas Cays, a string of small barren islets about 100 miles northeast of Santa Clara. Swimming for shore, Félix stopped to catch his breath, telling Rafael to push ahead. That was the last time Rafael saw his friend alive...
...fiscal weapon that President Kennedy and many liberal economists have long wanted restored to the nation's antirecession arsenal. The Fed announced it would begin buying U.S. notes and bonds of longer maturity.* By entering the long-term market, the Fed can shorten the supply of bonds, push prices up-and thus help nudge yields lower. Since Government bond yields tend to set the tone of all interest rates, this policy would be expected to push long-term rates down, make money cheaper and thus encourage business expansion. At the same time, the Fed and Treasury hope to keep...