Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working with Yankelevich, Talbott and Aikman edited the speeches into a single letter from the physicist. Aikman, who was Eastern Europe bureau chief from 1977 to 1978, wrote an introduction to the text, focusing on its views of the arms race and on Gorbachev's push for reforms. "The struggle in the Soviet Union between the momentum for change and the inertia of privilege," says Aikman, "is one of the great political and intellectual dramas...
...prices fell below $15 per bbl. Even as Saudi Arabia worked last week to keep the production agreement intact, causing prices to rise about $2, to $18 per bbl., many traders doubted that the pact would ultimately stick. Few OPEC watchers believe that the cartel will be able to push prices higher than $20 per bbl. in the next two years...
Possibly SDI proponents in the U.S. are counting on an accelerated arms race, associated with SDI, to exhaust and ruin the economy of the U.S.S.R. This policy will not work and is extremely dangerous to international stability. In the case of SDI, an "asymmetric" response (i.e., a push to develop offensive forces and weapons to knock out an SDI system) would most efficiently frustrate such hopes. The claim that the existence of the SDI program has spurred the U.S.S.R. to disarmament negotiations is also wrong. On the contrary, the SDI program is impeding those negotiations...
...cold, gray day in Philadelphia, and the furnace in the drafty old Commodore Barry Club can push the temperature only to about 50 degrees F, but the musicians just button their overcoats tighter, blow on their hands and take out their instruments. After all, it isn't every day that so many of their kind -- 20, at least -- gather in one place. In a musical subculture so arcane that few even know it exists, this counts as a world-class event: the first East Coast Convention of Cumann na bPiobairi, the national Irish Pipers' Club -- and what is a little...
...flamboyant, energetic private Gar tries to push his other self away from a painful past and into a future of endless possibilities. With his sarcastic and biting wit, he continually pokes fun at the people of Ballybeg, Ireland...