Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue boils down to enforcement. Students around the University have been reluctant to talk about the change in the alcohol policy because if they say they are going to flaunt the law, then it might push the University to crack down on them...
...push interest groups from the central role they occupy in party politcs, Kirk earlier this year eliminated several minority caucuses, putting a number of special interest groups under the direction of a single office. "Most Americans don't belong to organized caucuses" and the party must court those who don't Kirk said...
Langs thinks the "overwhelming responsibilities" of therapists push even some of the best-intentioned into imposing their own madness on therapy | sessions. Many, he says, "function well in their own lives, then come into the office and express their own mad concerns." Under the heading of mad therapies, Langs, a strict Freudian, includes all the sunny, upbeat treatments that are based on reassuring patients of their wonderful qualities. Some therapists in Langs' study assured their patients that their husbands or wives were the really crazy people. After a terrifying nightmare, one patient was told by his therapist that his dream...
More pressing matters, such as the farm bill, the unfinished budget and trade problems, could push the tax plan even further to the side. When asked if the issues of trade and tax reform were like two trains passing in the night, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole replied, "Yes, and one isn't moving." If tax reform collapses this year, it may not be revived until after 1986. Congress is unlikely to take action on taxes in an election year...
...nearly paralyzed by an intramural struggle between advocates of a negotiated agreement, led by former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, and opponents of arms control, led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle. Burt has since departed to become Ambassador to West Germany, leaving no one to push hard for arms control. The Pentagon under Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is unalterably opposed to abandoning SDI (see box). Publicly, Shultz always backs the President. Arms-Control Adviser Paul Nitze would seize what he considered an opening for an advantageous arms deal, but he is a veteran of the bureaucratic wars...