Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instead, service industries have added the tax to their prices and kept their help-while manufacturing employment has dwindled. All by itself, the S.E.T. has so far boosted the cost of living by 0.5%, according to Treasury estimates. Though pledged with the advent of North Sea natural gas to push Britain toward a cheap-energy policy, the government this month raised the price of nationalized electricity...
...only the price tags are rising. The cost of such options as push-button radios and tinted glass is up all around. And one sleeper involves changes in warranties. Now, first owners will get warranty protection as before, but second owners will have to accept limited coverage (in the case of Chrysler) or pay an initial $25 inspection fee plus a $25 deductible payment for subsequent warranty work done for full coverage (with Ford and A.M.C.). Third owners are out of luck altogether except with a G.M. car; if it is less than two years old (or has been driven...
Whether the plan is passed by Congress or not depends on how the extra-governmental groups react," Andrew M. Gleason, professor of Mathematics and a member of the panel, said Friday. "What we need is some group with a Congressional lobby to get behind it and push...
...still Tunisia's most popular man and the particular darling of Tunisian women, who revere him as their emancipator. By giving the doctrinaire radicals of his own Destourian Socialist Party just enough socialism, he has managed to curb most serious political opposition. Some students would like to push Tunisia off its moderate track and further to the left, but they do not worry Bourguiba. "We have been rendered immune against the Red bug," says his Economics Minister, Ahmed ben Salah. "When we see a student turning Communist, we send him to the Soviet Union for a cure. They always...
...York dispute left Negro and Puerto Rican groups angry over union attempts to enforce more discipline in the classroom, and they threatened to bar the return of teachers at some schools-a move that would suddenly push the school board and the teachers back together as allies against such pressure. At the same time, the financial headache for the city was painful. Noting that other unions of city employees will soon begin contract negotiations of their own, Lindsay cried: "I don't see how big-city government is going to survive...