Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sociology Department's faculty is small-with far fewer tenured faculty members than other social science departments-and will push next year for several new tenured positions, the sources said...
...Episcopal hierarchy was outraged when eleven women were ordained-perhaps improperly-as the first female priests in the church last July, but the episode typified a growing push toward clerical equality that is affecting virtually every major denomination. The United Methodist Church has 500 ordained women, up from 332 in 1970, and the United Presbyterian Church has 189, compared with 103 in 1972. The Lutheran Church in America, which began ordaining women in 1970, has 24 women in clerical posts. U.S. Judaism recently gained its second female rabbi. The number of women wearing the cloth is sure to expand soon...
...their newborn babies. At the same time, an Internal Revenue Service ruling that permits parents to deduct child-care expenses has enabled more housewives to take on a moderate workload, hobbies and other activities. Those who do volunteer work in social agencies find that there is a strong push to urge industry to consider voluntarism as "experience" on job applications-should the housewife some day opt to work...
...prices in 1973, prices for other raw materials were breaking records. Spurred by shortages and rampant speculation in commodities markets, prices for such staples as copper, rubber, cocoa, coffee, platinum and cotton rose sharply; some had doubled or tripled by mid-1974. But after the oil crisis helped push the West into recession, commodities prices tumbled, in some cases to a third of what they had been at the peak. Copper, for example, rose nearly 300% in 17 months, peaking at $1.40 per Ib. a year ago; this month the price fell as low as 560. The roller-coaster performance...
...prices arbitrarily. Nonetheless, international bodies such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development are opening a drive to counter price swings by stabilization agreements -and the timing is good. As world recession eases and industrial production returns toward normal, demand for commodities will rise again, threatening to push prices up once more...