Word: pushed
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...have both been spectacular. In 1980 and 1981 he showered the country with 26 million letters inviting consumers to apply for Visa cards. Many of them fell into the wallets of poor credit risks, and Citicorp rang up some $75 million in bad debts. Nonetheless, Reed's bold push into consumer banking, which included blanketing New York City with ATMs, was ultimately successful. The bank's consumer division went from a loss of $79 million in 1980 to a profit of $202 million last year...
Dinny Starr, Neilson and Ward punched shots past UVM goalie katherine Stan to push the Crimson into double digits for the first time this season...
...learned a lot from our loss last year," Grottkau added "We [this year's senior class] had never lost a meet before. We realized we had to renew our committment and push harder; everybody had to pitch...
Because he acknowledges the possibility of an Armageddon, President Reagan has been accused of being more willing to push the nuclear-war button [RELIGION, Nov. 5]. Believing in the inevitability of Armageddon does not automatically make one trigger-happy and dangerous. I accept the inevitability of death, yet I am not a careless driver. It does not follow that the belief hi a literal Armageddon has to be linked with a reckless willingness to enter a nuclear...
...well-intended goals of the bishops, they said that many of the specific proposals were shopworn ideas that had failed in the very recent past or might prove counterproductive. Many economists, for example, believe that the U.S. would suffer a new inflationary surge if the Government tried to push unemployment down to 3%, as the bishops propose. "The bishops' letter is a resurrection of old policies that are no longer supported by those knowledgeable in economics," said Alan Greenspan, president of the Townsend-Greenspan economic consulting firm and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. Charles...