Word: pushed
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When the White House helped push a new compromise budget plan through the Senate two weeks ago, it needed votes from farm-state Senators. As a result, the Administration agreed to help U.S. farmers improve their sagging sales in foreign markets. Keeping that promise, Agriculture Secretary John Block last week unveiled a new program that will in effect subsidize farm exports. Over the next three years the Government will give $2 billion worth of its surplus stock of agricultural commodities, like wheat and corn, to U.S. export companies. Under the plan, exporters will continue to buy grain from American farmers...
...long meeting produced no breakthroughs, at least it kept alive the resumed U.S.-Soviet dialogue. Shultz and Gromyko tentatively planned to meet again in Helsinki Aug. 1, and they agreed to push for accords on matters like cultural exchanges. The "nervousness and angst" between the two countries have diminished, U.S. officials insist, even if they have been replaced by stalemate. Said Shultz: "We heard each other out. I think that's very useful...
PHILADELPHIA--After a four day wait during which the Edmonton Oilers and the Philadelphia Flyers revitalized themselves for the big push, their Stanley Cup final series began Tuesday night...
Brennan plans to push forward the policies he helped initiate at Montgomery Ward. Says he: "I'm very excited about going back and continuing the strategies that we started when I was there before. Our real focus is on merchandise, improving the products we offer." To make Montgomery Ward more profitable, he will probably reduce the payroll still further from the present 78,000 and perhaps close as many as 300 of the 2,099 catalog outlets. He will probably concentrate the firm's efforts in the Midwest, its strongest region...
Nonetheless, reforms of these problems can only be achieved if students join the committee. In 1978, members of the freshman class temporarily lifted the boycott in order to push for reforms in the CRR. These students made some gains--including public transcripts and an equal student-Faculty balance on the committee. It is time for the classes of '86-'88 to pick up where the class of '81 left...