Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might have netted him $1 million if The Netherlands decided to buy any of the corporation's P-3 Orions. Angered by Lockheed's apparent refusal of his request, the prince wrote: "Since 1968 I have in good faith spent a lot of time and effort to push things in the right way in critical areas and times and have tried to prevent wrong decisions influenced by political considerations. So I do feel a little bitter...
...reconcile Eastern passivity with the thoroughly Western notion that striving and competition are essential to excellence. "What have you really won when you win?" he asks his students. "What have you really lost when you lose?" As if to show that winning is no big deal, he stages a pushing match between his left hand and his right, then points out that if winner and loser do not push hard, there is nothing in it for either one. True competition, it follows, is really a sophisticated form of cooperation...
...year 1976 started off so strongly on Wall Street that market analysts all but unanimously thought stock averages would push to record highs. As late as June, there were hopes that the rise would occur during the summer. Instead, brokers and investors have been sunning themselves on beaches, and hopes for a summer rally have finally disappeared in the past two weeks. Prices have drifted sideways on light volume during most of the hot weather, and are now ending the dog days with a downturn. The Dow Jones industrial average two weeks ago fell 33 points, following Robert Dole...
Dozens of subtle influences-investors' perceptions of who wins or loses the television debates between Ford and Carter, the candidates' standings in the polls-will push the market back and forth through the campaign. Republican Wall Street does not fear Carter, but it would like Ford to win; above all, it would like to know the outcome. Says William W. Helman, chairman of the investment committee of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co.: "There's a greater amount of uncertainty now about who is going to win, and the market doesn't like uncertainty." Market historians note...
...electronic push into the business of the convention did not go unnoticed-or unpunished. Just before the balloting on rule 16c, Temporary Convention Chairman Robert Dole ordered reporters off the floor, while the delegates cheered. CBS Floor Producer Don Hewitt immediately phoned Dole to protest, but television reporters and their bulky equipment were not back clogging the aisles at full strength for nearly an hour. When NBC Reporter Tom Pettit's earphone antenna was banged and bent by an unidentified flying object during a Wednesday-night Ford demonstration, David Brinkley remarked: "You get ten points for hitting a reporter...