Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iowa killings, Midwesterners wondered whether the frustration of the struggling agrarian class would lead to more violence. "A lot of our callers are on the edge," says Dan Levitas of Prairiefire, a Des Moines-based hot line for troubled farmers, "and it might not take much to push them over. Some say if they're going to go, they're going to take someone with them...
...push tax reform through the Democrat-controlled House, the President had taken a calculated gamble and formed an unholy alliance with Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a bluff old-style Democratic pol. Though studded with deals and concessions to buy off various Congressmen and their constituencies, the tax package Rostenkowski wrung out of his committee last month was at least a reasonable facsimile of the reform proposal launched by Reagan with great fanfare last spring. Beset by conflicting advice from his aides, however, the President hesitated before endorsing Rostenkowski's bill two weeks ago, and even then his praise...
...expressed for the continued involvement of the church in political and social affairs, there was deep division over the direction that commitment should take, especially in Latin America. Bishop Jose Ivo Lorscheiter of Santa Maria, president of Brazil's hierarchy, insisted that the controversial liberation theology movement does not "push toward violence." Neither, he said, does it "assume or justify Marxist ideology" or "break with Catholic theological tradition." To him, the movement is "indispensable to the church's activity and to the social commitment of Christians, even if it carries with it risks." A contrary view came from Colombia...
While the wealthy shop and play in West Hollywood, they do not run it, a point made forcefully during last year's campaign to incorporate. While the gay-rights issue got most of the ink in the press, the main push for cityhood came from tenants demanding rent control. While only 25% to 35% of West Hollywood's residents are homosexual, 85% are renters. Says Ron Stone, 38, a former U.S. Senate aide and father of the cityhood campaign: "Without a coalition of renters and gays, we would not have a city today...
...policy matters, McFarlane's differences with Shultz and Weinberger were often tactical rather than ideological. Last August McFarlane wanted to push Shultz and the President away from their support of the Botha regime in South Africa as the antiapartheid protests mounted. He even hinted that if he failed, he might quit. He was the first to fashion a plan to get the Government started on the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as Star Wars. But he came to see it basically as a means to pressure the Soviet Union toward resuming arms talks and eventually achieving a sharp reduction in offensive...