Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boys at Vassar and Sarah Lawrence were the B.M.O.C.s just a few years ago as women's colleges rushed to open their gates to men. The nationwide push for coeducation in the early '70s brought hard times to women's schools that chose to exclude men. Enrollment tumbled, alumnae panicked and school officials scrambled to recruit new students. Now, however, the picture is changing dramatically. All-women's colleges will open this fall with their highest enrollment in four years...
Women students may again tire of single-sex schools, as they did in the early 1970s. But many feel that their schools have a vital role to play in helping women achieve the self-confidence to push for equality in the outside world. As the Wellesley News has put it: "As long as women are kept off boards of trustees, out of jobs and in hot pants, the world needs a Wellesley College...
...Chinese have good reason to be vigilant. Many of their people live in vulnerable adobe-type, tile-roofed homes that collapse easily during tremors. And the country shudders through a great number of earthquakes, apparently because of the northward push of the Indian plate against the Eurasian plate. Says Press: "It is probably the one country that could suffer a million dead in a single earthquake...
...bought 9.8 million tons of American grain, would shortly be back for more. Last week TIME learned that the talk is only too true. In secret communications to the Ford Administration, the Soviets have indicated that they want to buy as much as 11 million additional tons. That would push total purchases this year about a third above the 15 million tons of grain* the Soviets bought during the "Great Grain Robbery" of 1972, when they secretly gobbled up enough of the U.S. crop to help trigger an inflationary rise in food costs. Indeed, a purchase of some 21 million...
...corn last week rose 5%; hog futures, a prime indicator of the anticipated price of corn, hit a record $1.05 per Ib. Agriculture Department experts think American farmers are holding some crops in storage waiting for still higher quotes, and these experts hope that release of the food will push prices down later this year. Meanwhile, though, retail food prices in June rose at an annual rate...