Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second among imports, with sales of 25,000, followed by Sweden's Volvo, Britain's MG and Japan's Datsun. The Japanese cars are rising fast: Toyota is now the second best-selling import in California, where the Japanese are driving hard prior to a nationwide push, and Honda will soon introduce...
Merge & Modernize. At De Gaulle's behest, Economics Minister Michel Debre has begun to push a broad plan to energize industry, argues that "we have no choice but to become competitive." The government has granted $600 million in low-interest loans to steel firms on the condition that they merge and modernize. The government has also helped to bring about more than 50 corporate mergers this year, notably in the metals, textiles and electronics industries. Hoping to enlarge the capital supply and to make Paris a world financial center on the order of London or New York, the Cabinet...
...Many experts predicted this would be Harvard's first losing season in eight years. The team rose to the occasion because everyone was willing to push themselves to the limit. Everyone was willing to pay the price of plain hard work...
...elevation, had been offered a $100,000-a-year job as head of the Association of American Railroads. Until Johnson pulled out Boyd's name, the front runner in the press guess-stakes had been White House Adviser Joseph A. Califano Jr., who with Boyd helped push the bill through Congress...
...White House wanted a Comptroller who would carry on Saxon's expansionist policies but consolidate more than innovate. Camp promises "no drastic changes" immediately, but expects to push training programs for bank examiners, expand automation in banking, strengthen the supervision of foreign banks, and continue Saxon's chartering and merger designs, though at a reduced clip. Merely to digest what Saxon bit off will keep Camp fully occupied. His office is involved in six antitrust suits concerning bank mergers. The trend in the courts so far has been to support the Comptroller against the Attorney General, ruling...