Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accepted local assurances of desegregation, only this year began asking evidence of "substantial progress." Even then, it was content merely to defer aid to transgressors; but when Southern Congress men blocked that option by getting legislation passed limiting deferments to 60 days, the Government had no choice but to push for outright fund cutoffs...
...first ones in a new city. They want to wait until there are stores and jobs in the neighborhood. Some families are repelled just by the idea of living in a preplanned community. Physical remoteness and poor access roads intensify selling problems. The developer's only alternative is to push early home sales--even at a loss--and subsidize early commercial facilities...
...proportional representation to direct balloting in order to stop the free-riding splinter parties from proliferating and to give the big parties a better chance to obtain clear majorities. The coalition will also have the opportunity to straighten out the country's complicated tax and budgetary problems and to push through some of the tough measures that are needed to regulate the German economy...
Last week the band was getting an extra push from other recording outfits who have rushed yet new versions of Winchester to the stores. RCA Victor's group, the Palm Beach Band Boys, is actually a Manhattan pickup combo led by an RCA executive who croons while holding his nose. He must be doing something right...
...which is not: some may decide that the plan will steal traffic away from their own national airlines. At week's end though, BOAC, Air-India and Scandinavian Air lines System said that they were willing to match Pan Am's deal; other airlines will try to push through an industry wide plan along the same lines, at a meeting of the rate-setting International Air Transport Association in Rome next week...