Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that objective achieved, next on Hanoi's list could be the pro-Western government in Bangkok. "The big question now," says a State Department official, "is whether Viet Nam will be tempted in the future to push farther, perhaps into Thailand." Thai military leaders last week were spending long "crisis hours" at their desks, and one general even dusted off an old contingency plan that calls for a pre-emptive Thai invasion of the Cambodian centers of Sisophon and Battambang as a buffer against any Vietnamese advance. Publicly, however, Bangkok authorities preferred to appear unconcerned. At his press...
...Security taxes equal to those levied on their workers. In practice, the public pays the employers' share too, because companies raise prices to pass along the boost. This year's increase may add half a point to the U.S. inflation rate; the bigger rise in 1981 will push prices up much more. Some bosses may also choose to hire fewer workers because the tax raises the cost of each employee. So the increases probably will aggravate unemployment as well as inflation...
...Theodore M. Hesburgh, adds: "Every time the Federal Government comes up with a bright idea for a new regulation it helps run our costs up through the ceiling." Hesburgh, a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, joins many of his peers in criticizing the federal push toward minority faculty hiring: "There are so few that we end up bidding against each other to recruit them. It would be far more sensible to start out by trying to increase the pool of minorities and women qualified for these jobs." Chicago's Johnson frets that Congress...
...ousted as mayor of Peking last October; Secret Police Chief Wang Tung-hsing; and Peking Regional Commander Chen Hsi-lien. Their survival appeared to be evidence of Teng's willingness to compromise with opposing factions, at least temporarily, to achieve the unity necessary for the arduous push toward modernization...
Other members of bench and bar fear that judges might overdo in their zeal to push a case along. "It's a tough balancing act," says John Frank, co-chairman of the National Conference on Discovery. "You don't want to freeze the issues too soon. Take class actions. Generally speaking, the class has been hurt, but they don't know what happened. All they know is that they've been wronged. So that's all they claim, and then they use discovery to build their case. If you don't have liberal discovery...