Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea of politicians as leaders in the ecology movement seems strange, even more surprising is who agreed to be the closing speaker at the London conference: Margaret Thatcher. Though she has long been accused of being insensitive to environmental issues, the Prime Minister promised last week that Britain will push manufacturers to eliminate chlorofluorocarbons from new refrigerators -- evidence that these days even the most conservative leaders are worried about the environment...
Nevertheless, the conclusion that such trade is abhorrent is not even controversial. Almost everyone agrees. Is almost everyone right? This question of how far we are willing to push the logic of capitalism will be thrust in our faces increasingly in coming years. Medical advances are making it possible to buy things that were previously unobtainable at any price. (The Baby M. "womb renting" case is another example.) Meanwhile, the communications and transportation revolutions are breaking down international borders, making new commercial relations possible between the comfortably rich and the desperately poor. On what basis...
BUSINESS: A push to overhaul aging U.S. jetliners...
...officials are lending quiet encouragement to peacemaking efforts, but deep political divisions and intransigence in El Salvador threaten to stop the latest push. The right-wing ARENA party rejected any delay in the election. And the rebels have hinted that if no talks are held soon, they will resume the war with greater intensity...
...think adding another structure here to try to push the process along is bad," says Astronomy Deparment Chair Jonathan E. Grindlay. "I don't really see any other practical way to make concerted progress...