Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America needs Gramm-Rudman because it allows Congressmen to pass the buck while saving the country big bucks. The law mandates a reduction in next year's deficit to $144 billion, shrinking to zero by 1991. Cuts like this will never happen without Gramm-Rudman. Reagan will continue to push for more defense and less social spending while Congress does the opposite. We end up with a lot more of both. Gramm-Rudman is crucial because it forces compromise. The mandatory cuts in the law are admittedly indiscriminate. However, the law is designed so that these measures will never take...
...paraphrase of the second question. Far more significant is the reason why 1018 did not vote on it, and why 55.3 percent did not vote at all. In the bold box on the top right corner of page one you tell us 61.8 percent voted that "the council [should] push for divestment." Nothing could be less true. The question was "[shall] the undergraduate council...support and encourage the majority view on the proceeding proposition through the appropriate means," a question perfectly suited to those who wish to see the council support divestment. I assume only the most fanatic would want...
January 27: A report denouncing McLaughlin is endorsed by the faculty. Several members attempt, but fail, to push through a vote of no-confidence...
...first reaction was shock, horror, grief. The second, and almost reflexive, response by public officials to the Challenger catastrophe was determination to push on with an ambitious program of manned space flights. Thus President Reagan, speaking to the nation within hours of the tragedy, pledged, "We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space." Next day William Graham, NASA's acting administrator, asserted that "the space shuttle is our principal space transportation system; it will remain our principal space transportation system...
King pledged immediately to push for a 30 percent cut in the U.S. defense budget if elected...