Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share power with opposing factions, gaining control of more territory in return, followed by Israeli withdrawals. The power sharing would have to be worked out in Lebanon's national reconciliation talks. Shamir was asked to use Israel's influence with the Phalange and with Muslim groups to push the talks forward. Gemayel, in turn, was encouraged in Washington to be bolder both in the reconciliation negotiations and in sending his own forces into contested territory...
...throughout the U.S.S.R. against a mixed force for NATO of 300 Pershing Us and cruise missiles. But National Security Adviser Clark favored "hanging tough on zero," and Weinberger said, "We don't want it to look as though we're letting the West German left push us around...
...President could succumb to reflexive nuclear revenge, even if he is surrounded by old cronies who, after a couple of bourbons, suggest it is time to "nuke 'em." From the man who carries "the football," the briefcase containing the launch codes, to the officers who push the buttons, a President must deal with an impersonal and coldly rational chain of command. A comforting irony is that military leaders are not the Strangelovian warriors imagined by many civilians. Those who prepare for nuclear war know it best-and fear it most...
...department-store industry has been enjoying a boom since last April, and the holiday sales surge should push earnings even higher. Third-quarter profits were up dramatically. K mart's earnings increased 171%, to $81 million over the same period last year. At Associated Dry Goods, which owns Lord & Taylor and Caldor stores, profits increased 74%, to $14.3 million...
...above all, charms, in the old, musical, intransitive form of the verb. As a journalist and novelist, she has sought a coherent melody in the dissonances and sprung rhythms of her times. Her collection of essays Toward a Radical Middle (1970) presented a critical intelligence unde-flected by the push and bombast of public events. At a noisy period in the country's history, Adler firmly registered the difficulty, high cost and fragility of progress, or, as she put it, "how much has been gained, how far there is to go, and what there is to lose...