Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Board Member Samuel Brittan, economics columnist for London's Financial Times, predicted that growth will rise from 3% in 1986 to 3.5% this year and push the unemployment rate down slightly, from 11.4% to 10.7%. Brittan hopes the pound will stabilize at more or less its current level. Further substantial declines in the currency, he said, could begin to put pressure on the British inflation rate by making imports more expensive...
Frequently forced to move the ball inside, Keffer tallied 10 assists to push her career total to 307--an all-time Harvard assist record in only her junior year. Keffer dished out six assists in the first nine minutes of the game, breaking the record with a pass to junior Co-Captain Sharon Hayes for a baseline shot which put which put the Crimson up 28-17 with 11:03 remaining in the first half...
...siege of Basra seemed to have turned up the pressure considerably on the Iraqi government. In a Baghdad radio address, Saddam referred to Khomeini's "human wave" assaults, accusing the Iranian leader of "appealing, as if the devil were between his eyes, for further men to push into the inferno of death." He repeated his offer for a peace settlement, which the Iranian government promptly rejected. Meanwhile, a government-controlled newspaper published a decree by the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council asking for volunteers aged 14 through 25 to enlist in the army...
...chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Kennedy is expected to push for an increase in the minimum wage during this Congress. In the House, New York Democrat Mario Biaggi has submitted a bill to raise the current rate to $5.05 an hour over a five-year period and index it after 1991 to half of average hourly earnings. The present minimum is less than 38% of average...
...cornered Bush and urged him to confront Reagan. The Vice President was reluctant. Reagan, he said, had already made up his mind. In their sessions alone, Bush takes pains not to make Reagan uncomfortable. The President grumbles about overzealous advisers but never about Bush. The Vice President does not push...