Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their routine ride became an ascent into hell. Flames erupted along the moving wooden stairs and spread rapidly upward. Those people riding near the top of the crowded staircase were delivered directly into the center of the blazing inferno. Unable to turn back, they could only push forward into the flames, their clothes and hair catching fire as they dashed for the exits...
...states plus the District of Columbia since 1982. Despite strong opposition from the alcohol industry, which lobbies vigorously against higher excise taxes for alcohol and warning labels on beer, wine and liquor bottles, groups like MADD and the National Council on Alcoholism continue to push initiatives that will further discourage consumption of alcohol...
...agents and six IRS investigators must build their own criminal cases against any lawbreakers. Nonetheless, the tightly reasoned, judiciously stated majority report, signed by all of the committees' 15 Democrats as well as by three Republican Senators, contains ample reasons why Walsh and his crew are likely to push hard for indictments of several participants in the Iran-contra affair...
...budget summiteers hoped to reach agreement this week, and waiting any longer could push the financial markets into a deep funk. But for the moment investors took consolation in the temporary halt of the dollar's worrisome slide. In a calculated strategy orchestrated by Treasury Secretary James Baker in the wake of Black Monday, the Government has been allowing the dollar to decline. Baker believed not only that a lower dollar would help ease the trade deficit by making American goods more competitive but also that propping up the currency would force the U.S. to keep interest rates too high...
...trade gap improves, but the budget summiteers push a deadline. -- Layoffs and low morale at Texas...