Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Harvard had divested $2.8 million of its more than $400 million in South Africa-related stocks and that the University would fund internships for students in that nation through a $1 million endowment. Leaders of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), however, held a rally in October to push Harvard toward total divestment...
...year old Sullivan told The Crimson Sunday evening that he also would push for reforming the city's rent control and condominium conversion laws in the next two years. But Sullivan, who was last mayor in 1974, said that he would not try to eradicate Cambridge's stringent housing laws...
Noting that last November's election preserved the 5-4 balance in support of the law, Sullivan said in an interview yesterday that "we'll never lose rent control." But he said he hopes to push for some reforms in the law, as well as reforms in laws covering condominium conversion...
...Kremlin propagandists insisted that the real purpose of Shultz's trip to Europe, which included stops in Britain, Belgium and West Germany as well as in Eastern Europe, was to push for President Reagan's "infamous" Strategic Defense Initiative. If so, Shultz did not fare much better with his own allies than he did with the Easterners. The West German government last week agreed to discuss participating in Star Wars research, and hence share in the funding, but pointedly refused to embrace publicly the concept of a space- based missile defense...
...prime rate has fallen from 11% to 9 1/2% during the past twelve months. Said Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution: "One essentially bullish aspect to the outlook is the expectation that the Federal Reserve will work actively to avoid a recession. It will intervene and push down rates if it judges that necessary to keep the economy from stagnating...