Word: pushed
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...leases are increasingly available from auto companies and dealers, as well as from financial institutions. While most showroom personnel still push first for sales, two-thirds of the nation's 25,150 auto dealers now arrange leases as well. The Consumer Bankers Association says 53% of its member banks leased cars last year, up from just 26% in 1983. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1986 assets: $90.78 billion) says the number of leases on its books has increased from about 50,000 in 1982 to about 600,000 last year. GM's Pontiac Division last month introduced 50-month cut-rate...
Confusion at the level of theory has put no damper on the orgy of speculation about potential applications. Some ideas involve upgrading existing superconducting technology; others push marginal technology into the realm of the profitable; still others raise the prospect of entirely new uses of the phenomenon...
...Bank of Japan to continue lowering interest rates to boost the Japanese economy and enable firms and consumers to buy more foreign products. The disclosure dovetailed neatly with congressional testimony last week by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who said the U.S. central bank was moving to push American interest rates higher. At week's end major U.S. banks raised their prime rate from 7 3/4% to 8%. Taken together, the U.S. and Japanese actions will make it more attractive for investors to hold dollars and less attractive to hold yen, which should strengthen the collapsing dollar against the surging...
...induce electric currents in the guideway coils, which then themselves become electromagnets. As power is increased, the opposing sets of magnets repel each other and lift the train into the air. Two other rows of electromagnets, one on each wall of the U- shaped guideway, repeatedly reverse polarity to push or pull on the coach's magnets and thus move the train forward...
...South African educator stressed that his organization is part of the progressive push to improve education for Blacks under apartheid, Murphy said. His commission was created by the National Education Crisis Committee (NECC), a grassroots organization concerned with bettering Black education...