Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protectionist pressures in Congress have declined. But the Group of Five now seems to be in no hurry to stop what it started. The central banks, with the exception of the Bank of Japan, are making no attempt to discourage private foreign-exchange traders from continuing to push the dollar down...
...videocassette tapes in Tuscaloosa, Ala., this fall, and plans to double production of audio equipment at its Singapore plant. Says Darrel Whitten, associate director of research at Bache Securities (Japan) Ltd.: "The strong yen will accelerate this tendency to rely on overseas production, just as the strong dollar helped push American manufacturing and assembly overseas...
...push their treatments, manufacturers have buffed up an old gambit: the scientific slant. Names, and often prices, are suggestive of proprietary drugs: Estee Lauder's Prescriptives, L'Oreal's Biotherm and Revlon's European Collagen Complex. The list of ingredients in many concoctions would make the witches of Hampstead Heath envious, from plant extracts like soybean and avocado oil to miracle chemicals. In May, Shiseido will introduce a 24-hour cream, BH 24, containing biohyaluronic acid. La Prairie boasts that its Cellular Wrinkle Cream has proteins from the placentas of black sheep (because they are so resistant to disease, explains...
...Congress. While the D.L.C. is not nudging any closer to the party's Old Guard, the Old Guard seems to be edging closer to the D.L.C. The recent move by as many as a dozen Southern states to coordinate an influential regional presidential primary in March 1988 may push the two factions into a bona fide embrace...
Until this year, the board was dominated by governors who supported Volcker's strategy of maintaining relatively tight credit to keep inflation at bay. The Volckerites held sway over two members appointed by President Reagan --Martin and Martha Seger--who often wanted to push the economy faster. But in January Reagan named two more members: Wayne Angell, a Kansas banker and economics professor, and Manuel Johnson, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary. That put the Reagan appointees, whom economists dubbed the "Gang of Four," in the majority...