Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...activists in the Senate, however, are becoming increasingly eager to carry the fight to Ford. Among them is Senator Edward Kennedy, who says "I'm ready now" to fight for a comprehensive health insurance plan, long one of his major concerns. Kennedy also finds his colleagues eager to push for legislation dealing with the cities, the economy, energy and tax reform...
...last year. U.S. exports during 1975 ran $11 billion ahead of imports, according to Census Bureau figures, eclipsing the previous record trade surplus of $8.6 billion in 1947. Businessmen and investors are also encouraged by the Federal Reserve Board's willingness to exert pressure to push down interest rates; last week First National City Bank of New York cut its prime rate on loans to business by a quarter point, to 6.5%. Says Howard Stein, chief of the Dreyfus Corp., which has $2.5 billion in mutual funds: "The Fed is finally allowing interest rates to adjust to the needs...
...ruling may push up the price of many consumer products. Red No. 40 costs $8.50 per lb., v. $5.50 for No. 2, and manufacturers have to use 30% to 50% more of it to get the same color intensity as with Red No. 2. Even then, the colors do not come out quite the same, so chocolate pudding may look a bit greener. Some potential losers from the FDA ruling: New York's Crompton & Knowles, Chicago's Stange Co., Cincinnati's Hilton-Davis Chemical Co. They relied on Red No. 2 for up to 25% of sales...
...retracing circular designs, skating backward and forward in perfect circles. Now it is nearly noon. Sweating and struggling to maintain her radiant smile, Dorothy, 19, is skating her freestyle program. As she swirls over the ice, leaping and spinning at presto pace, Twin Rinks Pro Peter Burrows shouts instructions. "Push it, give it more extension! Fly into it!" He shuts off the music. Dorothy bends over, gulping air. "O.K., "says Burrows, "let's try it again...
Biathlon, the Games' most eccentric sport, is surely the most demanding. Racers must push their bodies to the thresh old of fatigue, then steady to take dead aim at the four firing points along the trail. Particularly punishing are the 200-meterlong penalty loops that competitors in the relay race must run if they fail to break a target. It is all a far cry from the origins of the sport in Lapland, when dinner depended on a hunter's accuracy. Heikki Ikola of Finland could win the individual event; the Soviets and Finns will go head...