Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolution critical of Panama's drug enforcement policies last March, Trott told a Senate committee, "The Panamanians have given ((the DEA)) 100% of its requests in terms of drug traffickers." An unlikely coalition led by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms and Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry was nevertheless able to push the resolution through. In the House, New York Democrat James Scheuer has blasted the Justice Department's praise for Panama's antidrug efforts as "disingenuous and intellectually dishonest," charging, "Noriega is involved in drug trafficking and money laundering right up to his kazoo...
...years ago, thanks to its transformation under Editor Ivan Laptev into a lively collage of reporting and commentary. "For Soviet readers, Izvestia is the most interesting newspaper around," says Ogonyok's Biryukov. In early August the paper published an interview with a military officer whose duty it is to push the launch button at a nuclear missile center. Never before had a Soviet publication reported in such detail on a missile site and the men who operate...
...drawn-out beer boycott began in 1977, when the brewery hired nonunion workers to replace 1,500 employees who had walked off their jobs to protest a proposed labor contract. Lately, a new Coors marketing push in the Northeast has been stymied by the campaign. At such lucrative beer-drinking venues as New York City's Shea Stadium and Boston's Fenway Park, vendors had refused to sell the boycotted brew...
...stakes are growing larger all the time. In the past two years strong consumer demand has helped push up world emerald prices by almost 30%. A polished, top-grade deep green stone weighing one carat now typically costs $5,000 on the retail market. Colombia exports an estimated $40 million worth of emeralds annually, but that does not account for all the gems that are illegally smuggled out of the country. Both the mining companies and the government lose millions of dollars in revenue because of the unauthorized activities of the guaqueros...
...bail last week in Washington, U.S. Magistrate Jean Dwyer ordered the art historian to stay out of the National Archives, the Library of Congress and the National Gallery. "I have nothing else to do," Mount complained somewhat pathetically. Shot back Dwyer: "Try the zoo. Don't push your luck, Mr. Mount...