Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first quarter of 1986, People cut its fuel bill by as much as $16 million, or 30%. The oil- price plunge may not result in lower air-fares, since they have already been slashed by the recent discount wars, but reduced fuel costs may keep airlines from having to push ticket prices back...
...positions and use the services of more minority-owned businesses. Jackson is seeking from the networks the same kind of "covenants" he has signed with several major corporations, including Kentucky Fried Chicken, Coca-Cola, 7-Up and Burger King. Whatever the merits of Jackson's arguments, the PUSH crusade has begun to look a bit like an outtake from the satirical film Network...
...Fried Chicken (whose parent company signed an agreement with Jackson in 1982 to make it easier for blacks to obtain and finance franchises) and Syrian President Hafez Assad (who, at Jackson's urging, released a U.S. flyer shot down over Lebanon in 1983). Today Jackson and Chicago-based Operation PUSH, an organization that he founded, are in the midst of a new crusade, and this time the target is the TV networks...
...past six months, Jackson and fellow PUSH leaders have staged a viewer boycott of CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago. Jackson last week said that he is trying to expand the campaign not only to four other CBS-owned stations but to the network as well. PUSH representatives met with the general managers of WCBS-TV in New York City and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles last week and their counterpart at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia two weeks ago; talks are being sought with KMOX-TV in St. Louis. Next week Jackson will air his complaints at CBS's annual...
Porterfield's case hardly suffices as a rallying cry to storm the barriers of discrimination. As Chicago Tribune Columnist Mike Royko put it, "I might understand PUSH's concern for Porterfield if he had been flung out of the station door and forced to cadge quarters on a street corner . . . (but) he hasn't exactly become a member of America's underclass...