Word: pushed
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...policies may force Nicaragua along the Cuban route. McGinn says. He agrees with Steiner that armed pressure against the country will militarize the Sandinistas further and push them towards heightened internal controls. "If we attack Nicaragua we will eliminate loyal opposition in the country. The Sandinistas will necessarily centralize and rule out any opposition...
...people--presumably alcohol fans--from the East and Midwest who came to escape unemployment and cash in on the oil boom. Soldiers at For Sill in Law ford and students at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and Oklahoma State University in Still water, might also be able to push their counties to allow one of military men's and college students' favorite activities...
...question that this country has felt a powerful impact from the Judeo-Christian tradition. A great deal of the impact on the founding of this country, on the Constitution, and on people like Thomas Jefferson came from the Enlightenment, which offered a rational, ethical approach to government. If you push that back, it would take you to many Jewish and Christian roots. But it would be a mistake to believe that this country was founded on strict Jewish-Christian faith principles alone, because the Enlightenment influences were broader than that...
...that his report will make it even more difficult for Meese to win Senate confirmation. Republican Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would not hold new hearings on the nomination this year. Still, if Reagan wins by a landslide, he may have the clout to push the nomination through the Senate. Or Meese may decide that the wiser course is to declare himself vindicated and return to private life...
...important fishing and timber industries−and which many Canadians blame on the U.S. The Reagan Administration contends that the link between acid rain and sulfur-dioxide emissions that drift northward from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest has not yet been proved. Mulroney, however, has promised to push the issue with the White House, most likely after the U.S. election in November. The Liberal government committed itself to halving emissions on its side of the border by 1994, but Canadian officials doubt that Washington will do the same. Some U.S. experts think the U.S. might agree to install...