Word: pushed
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...arrangement announced last week by Grinspun at the joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the IMF, Argentina pledged to clamp down on its money supply and credit, push up interest rates (currently 15.5% for deposits) in order to encourage savings, slow inflation, and stem the outflow of money from the country. Argentina also said it would try to chop the deficit in the biggest areas of public-sector spending from its level of 11.4% of gross domestic product in 1983, to 8.1% this year and down to 5.4% in 1985. In addition, Argentina indicated that it will take...
...does New York State Commissioner of Education Gordon Ambach, who believes that early starts for all will give poorer children the same advantages that many of their middle-class peers already enjoy in private preschool programs. A growing number of administrators agree. They are trying to accommodate the push for early education by shifting to full-day programs. About a third of all U.S. kindergarten pupils are attending school full time, up from...
...This game has given us a lot of confidence," O'Neill said. "More than frustrating, it has given us a little push...
Perhaps what gave the Crimson its biggest push yesterday, and its biggest shot in the arm, was someone who wasn't even on the playing field...
...ignore, and their impact was refracted on the screen. "When schools were being desegregated," recalls Danny Glover, a likely Oscar nominee for his performance as the hobo in Places in the Heart, "you saw Poitier become a film star. And in the wake of the Watts riots and the push for community control, you got blaxploitation." These were the low-budget gangster and horror movies that, along with prestige efforts like Sounder and Lady Sings the Blues, detonated the explosion of black films in the early '70s. Suddenly directors like Gordon Parks and Melvin van Peebles had broken...