Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...utility has a 30-day grace period, which ends in mid-November, to correct its default. If it fails to do so, creditors could push Public Service into bankruptcy and reorganization. The company would then become the first U.S. utility to succumb financially to the nuclear-plant cost overruns and environmental battles that have plagued dozens of plants across the country. Even the $2.25 billion default of the Washington Public Power Supply System in 1983 failed to knock out any utilities, largely because WPPSS was a consortium in which the financial burden was shared by 16 companies. But the weight...
...decried the Guatemala plan as fatally flawed, responded coolly to the news. Asked to comment on the Nobel Committee's choice, President Reagan said simply, "I congratulate him." Hours later the White House released a statement that could be read as a warning of the Administration's intention to push forward with its campaign to keep the contras armed and in the field. "This award," it said, "should inspire all of us to renew our efforts to ensure that enduring peace and democracy eventually come to the region." The Administration has consistently maintained that only continued pressure by the contras...
...issues to go before the council last year--reform of the disciplinary system--the council was captured by the administration. Rather than standing firm as the students' voice, the council leaders submitted to the deans and accepted window dressings in place of actual reforms. The council members didn't push to give students the minimal protection of a written code of rules...
...hard-won agreement, worked out over 16 months of arduous negotiations and an intense last-minute push to meet an Oct. 4 deadline imposed by Washington, aims at creating nothing less than the world's largest open market. If the tentative accord wins the approval of the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament, all tariffs and many other restrictions that impede the flow of goods and services between the countries will vanish by 1999. President Reagan called the agreement an "important model for other nations seeking to improve their trading relationships." To Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, it was simply...
...Administration, the National Science Foundation and the Chemical Manufacturers Association. The purpose: to find out why the layer of ozone gas in the upper atmosphere, which protects the earth's surface from lethal solar ultraviolet radiation, was badly depleted over Antarctica. The scale of the mission reflected an intensifying push to understand the detailed dynamics of potentially disastrous changes in the climate. The danger of ozone depletion is only part of the problem; scientists are also concerned about the "greenhouse effect," a long-term warming of the planet caused by chemical changes in the atmosphere...