Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the third most powerful man in Peking after Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, to Paris for talks with French leaders. Peking will probably also try to strengthen its ties with Japan and the U.S. Ironically, the Communist triumph in South Viet Nam could push China into a closer relationship with the West and Japan in an effort to offset growing Soviet influence in Southeast Asia...
Buoyed by the state election results (and by a new poll that showed his popularity at 68%, up from 47% when he took office a year ago), Schmidt promptly declared that his legislative program had "won scope for action." He announced his intention to push several controversial bills through the Bundestag-notably reforms in vocational education and a measure that would give workers an equal say with shareholders on the boards of major companies...
Worker participation received a big push in France recently when a national commission recommended 70 changes in law and business practices aimed at increasing worker "co-surveillance," or otherwise making working conditions more humane. The most important proposal calls for one-third worker representation on company boards...
...necessary ambition or stamina. Because he has no roots, he travels, and Notes is full of encounters with odd characters that evoke a bittersweet mixture of sympathy and contempt. The strangest of the lot is Mr. Blue, an aging door-to-door salesman still capable of doing 50 push-ups on request, who lives with a six-foot woman gymnastics teacher. But Exley also makes more "ordinary" encounters memorable. And the web of brawls begun over football arguments, debauched weekends, overnight stays on couches and endless journeys are held together by forceful personal insights, culminating in the realization...
...which Congress would block decontrol and/or a tariff boost, but be unable to produce any legislation that Ford would accept. That would probably result in a political orgy of finger pointing and leave the nation with no energy policy at all. There seems to be little public opinion push for any. A private poll that the FEA has had taken regularly for the past year or so shows that a majority of those questioned would prefer even some kind of rationing to higher energy prices. But another of the poll's findings offers what could be an insight into...