Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a shrewd liberal who will more aggressively challenge the White House. In the Senate, the favorite to replace Montana's scholarly and restrained Mike Mansfield as majority leader is West Virginia's Robert Byrd, 58, and he is also likely to push harder for social legislation that Ford would oppose. Then, too, if Carter is defeated, the Democrats' party leadership will be up for grabs. Potential Democratic candidates for the presidency in 1980-men like Senators Edward Kennedy and Fritz Mondale and Congressman Mo Udall-can be expected to sponsor bills...
...only for Asian-American students, but for all students who find it difficult to adjust to life in the Harvard community. The dean's office is currently considering opening the minority orientation program to all students next year; the incident at the start of this year should help push the office toward this...
Carter, like Ford, recognizes that the Government cannot use fiscal and monetary stimulation to bring unemployment much below 5% or 5½% without reigniting inflation. Thus, to reach his goal of 4½% unemployment and create jobs for roughly 1 million unemployed people, Carter would push selective Government job programs-subsidies for companies to hire the unemployed, a plan like the old CCC to put jobless youths to work on urban clean-up and build-up projects, and the like. He argues that the programs would ultimately pay for themselves by getting people off the dole and turning them into...
...policy. In Moscow, there was some satisfaction over the events of the past two weeks. A move toward pragmatism in Peking could lessen the importance of the ideological disagreements between the two countries. Moreover, the Chinese military understands full well its weakness on the Russian frontier, and it may push for at least a limited rapprochement with Moscow...
...assure Syrian influence throughout the region, refused to attend any such meeting. Then, under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Assad agreed to confer with Arab leaders gathered over the weekend at the Saudi capital of Riyadh. After the talking was over, the prospect was that Syria would continue to push its offensive...