Word: pushed
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...from July to September, Reagan's name increasingly carried more weight with the voters. Growing numbers of them who supported the nameless Democrat ironically declared that it's important to give Reagan the numbers he needs in Congress to push through his policies. Much of the electorate, then, is limp, easily swayed into joining the Republican camp when the President is mentioned...
...responding with such alacrity, Marcos was limiting the damage from what could have been a devastating blow. He declared, "Our government makes manifest to all its desire and its determination to push this case through to the final resolution." He also urged his countrymen to "put an end to the campaign of intimidation and pressure that during the past year has so heightened tensions, endangered so many lives and besmirched the very reputation of our republic." The following day, the President also handed the explosive majority report over to the Ministry of Justice and authorized the members of the Agrava...
...repeating their desperate move of March 1983, when they were forced to make the first and only price cut in OPEC'S history, a markdown of its benchmark Arab Light crude by $5 per bbl., to $29. Since then, energy conservation and sluggish world economic growth have helped push oil prices even lower, despite OPEC's self-imposed production limit of 17.5 million bbl. a day. Ministers hinted last week that they might reduce their output to about 16 million bbl. a day. By comparison, the group's daily production in 1979 was 32 million...
Despite the push, there were signs that this fall's boomlet was only a spotty phenomenon. Most institutions in the South and the Rocky Mountain states were doing the slow business that had been predicted nationwide. On the other hand, many of the first-choice colleges, such as Stanford, the University of Chicago and the Ivies, have enrolled more freshmen than expected...
...visit must have a strong impact if it is to offset the President's appearance today. He will also have to give a push to Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry, whose lead over Republican Raymond Shamie has not grown despite charges that Shamie is connected to the John Birch Society and may shrink after today's Reagan endorsement...