Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little that was done in Tokyo will help to ease that process. Before the meeting started, diplomats discarded as unworkable the idea of forming a consumers' cartel to bargain with OPEC. The summit leaders did agree, however, to push production of coal and nuclear power...
Though the decision stressed the importance of employers voluntarily setting up affirmative-action programs, it is likely that the government will use Weber to push for outright quota systems for minorities. Says Stanley Kaleczyc, associate general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "This decision will give the EEOC more reason to press companies that have been laying back...
That would be a start in the right direction, as would the proposal that President Carter announced last week to make more money available for development of solar energy. The nation does need to push production of alternate forms of energy, to reduce its debilitating dependence on unpredictable and outrageously priced oil supplies from OPEC. But neither solar power nor synthetic fuels will help much to shorten gasoline lines, or to keep homes warm, for years to come...
...Deputy Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced that his government was going to get tough with refugees from Viet Nam. Not only would Malaysia shoot on sight at any more of the so-called boat people who tried to land on its shores, said Mahathir, but it would push back to sea the 76,000 who have already landed there. If necessary, continued Mahathir, Malaysia would build boats in which to remove them. Said he: "If they try sinking the boats, they won't be rescued. They will drown...
...would be, the guerrillas vowed, their "final offensive," an all-out push that would topple Nicaragua's military strongman, President General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle. Bands of well-armed insurgents of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) slipped across the border from Honduras and Costa Rica. The rebels first struck in half a dozen cities in the interior, bottling up government garrisons with torrents of bullets from Belgian-made automatic rifles. Then they moved into the capital of Managua, which had been paralyzed by a general strike. While Somoza's air force wheeled overhead, raining down barrages...