Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until 1964, the Viet Cong ranks were entirely volunteer; conscripts were disdained as utterly untrustworthy. Then, on the brink of victory and needing extra manpower for the final push, the Viet Cong began drafting men. Today, conscription is one of the Viet Cong's most serious problems, required not for victory but simply to replace the lengthening roster of casualties. Viet Cong troopers are paid only from 300 to 500 per month, v. a government recruit's pay of $27 per month, and few youths in V.C. areas volunteer any more. Instead, they are given an ultimate choice: join...
...cutting prices last February, the company got some extra sales push out of its slow-moving Rambler American economy line. It decided to scrap its ill-conceived Marlin fastback effective with the 1968 model-year, meanwhile cut back production on all '67 models to make sure that it would not be stuck with unsold cars. "Since January," says Luneburg, "we've operated at about halftime. I've never seen it before-and I never want to again...
...recognized-still lies with the Federal Government, which alone has resources sufficient for the task. Despite a flurry of imaginative proposals from both sides of the aisle, there was little hope that Congress-dominated by its aging, rural-oriented committee chairmen-would open up those resources without a strong push from the electorate. Yet the man in the best position to stir the American conscience, the President, seemed unusually phlegmatic about the urban crisis...
They run their complex on the theory that "It's a lovin' era," and it doesn't seem to do them any harm. Last weekend they began to push into the territory further up Brattle St., when they opened a shop for the woman who actually wants to wear the stuff she sees in Vogue. The new place is called Paraphanalia...
...razing of the old Wellington and Kelly Schools began last month when the Authority started to execute the locally prepared Neighborhood Improvement Plan. Both schools have been vacant since the construction of the new Harrington School, and the City Council began in May to push for rehabilitation of the neighborhood. The two sites, according to the Authority, are intended for residential development as the first part of the $6-million Wellington-Harrington Neighborhood Improvement program...