Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cease-fires, amnesties, cut-offs of foreign aid to rebels, and other goals were not achieved on schedule. Yet both men remained committed to the proposal, even as rebel violence continued in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The White House had planned to use the failed deadline to push for $270 million in new contra aid. But with a congressional defeat looming, the Administration decided to seek only $30 million in nonlethal aid, to tide the contras over at least through mid-January...
...executives had thought insufficiently sympathetic.) Michael Douglas was in on the project early, but Close arrived only after Debra Winger had rejected the role and Barbara Hershey was unavailable. The film began shooting in September 1986 under Lyne's direction. Flashdance had proved that Lyne knew which buttons to push for a multimedia smash, and 9 1/2 Weeks, a flop at the U.S. box office but a hit at the video stores, showed his fascination with the theme of sexual dependency at the borderline of pain and pleasure...
After Cyr was retired, Myers led incumbentIndependent Thomas M. Danehy briefly, and he had achance to push out Danehy and join Graham on theCouncil. But the transfers from Independent DanielClinton, who was in eleventh place, pushed Danehyto within 100 votes of the quota and all butguaranteed his seat...
...things stood until the coming of the nuclear missile, when all the rules abruptly changed and the leadership of men in combat suddenly became secondary to the decision on when to push buttons. What is needed now, says Keegan, is "an end to the ethic of heroism . . . for good and all." In a nuclear showdown, he concludes, a leadership can justify itself only "by its detachment, moderation and power of analysis." Keegan thinks the U.S. got that leadership from John Kennedy during its only real nuclear confrontation, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. As for the next time...
...economists generally believe any attempt to restore the Louvre values would push the Federal Reserve back into a dangerous high-interest-rate policy and would be bound to fail anyway. "Willy-nilly the dollar is going to fall in the next two to three years," says Charles Schultze, who headed the Council of Economic Advisers under Jimmy Carter. Feldstein figures that the dollar would have to drop 30% in five years to reach a sustainable value and adds that if natural market forces were left to work unhindered, most of that decline would occur in the next twelve months...