Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vastly superior campaign expertise of the high-powered Mondale staff. When the week began, she was encamped in a 35th-floor Meridien Hotel suite, down the hall from her running mate, and her principal day-to-day operatives were mostly Mondale transfers. "I have these wonderful men who push me in and out of places," she said, moments after one of her new aides had guided her into a 40-minute meeting with TIME editors and correspondents. The ferocity of a vice-presidential candidate's schedule, she quickly learned, leaves hardly any time for leisurely schmoozing. "I never...
...foes" may think. This is what characterizes our society as "open" from those the Reagan Administration has pledged to undermine as distastefully "closed," or totalitarian. Weinberger is certainly not the first to recognize the drawbacks of such openness on military security, but he is among the first to push for its subversion. Under this administration, the dictates of national security now require the dilution of the very political principles it was meant to defend...
...consistent, still idealistic philosophy for social things while so many of her musician/activist colleagues have switched allegiances, flip-flops from credo to credo, or simply given up. Travers compares fighting for social change to the struggle of a folk song's hero or heroine. The message is "you can push for change now, but look for evidence later, often much later. There's this concept of 'paying your dues,' which everyone must go through. The same is true for social change; there's no painless solution and you've got to pay your dues...
L.B.J.'s Great Society gave the welfare state a mighty push. In the 1960s, benefit checks began to flow out of Washington in a stream that soon became a torrent: a nationwide food-stamp program, rent supplements for the poor, scholarships for college students, federal grants for the arts, Medicare, Medicaid, higher pensions for federal employees and veterans, subsidized low-income housing, aid to handicapped children. Despite Johnson's intention to help the helpless, middle-and even upper-income groups climbed aboard...
Hard-liners within the Reagan Administration seized upon that request with glee. One low-level State Department cable even proclaimed that it "could lead to a significant shift from [Costa Rica's] neutralist tightrope act and push it more explicitly and publicly into the anti-Sandinista camp." Although the message did not reflect official policy, once leaked it produced an understandable outcry in Costa Rica...