Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same reasons, New Jersey, which lowered its drinking age to 18 in 1972, may also raise it: the state senate has voted to push the minimum age up to 19. Concern about youthful boozing is similarly an issue in Massachusetts, which went to 18 in 1973. Bay State legislators voted to go to 19 last July, but then-Governor Michael Dukakis refused to sign the bill into law. His successor, Conservative Democrat Edward King, believes that his tough stand in favor of raising the age helped him get Dukakis...
...personality. On the one hand, he is the kindly old schoolmaster, genuinely interested in the students who walk through his doors, concerned that his preparation material is always fresh. On the other hand, he has become a businessman far removed from Brooklyn and his humble origins. There is a push and a pull operating within...
Often the newer agencies are headed by enthusiasts who see a mission to push new rules without regard to price. As a result, they have made little attempt to apply the most elementary cost-benefit analyses. Cheaper solutions that could achieve the same ends or almost the same ends have been ignored in favor of overkill. America has just not got value for money from its red-tape spending spree...
Antipollution laws push domestic steel prices up by $8 a ton and put U.S. steelmakers at a big competitive disadvantage...
...socialist libertarians criticize the specifically socialist groups for what they consider to be an overly restrictive set of values. "We're not opposed to worker-controlled factories. We just don't think people should be forced to participate in that kind of system. When it comes down to push and shove, some anarcho-socialists say that there are certain things that are 'wrong.' Though they never say there should be government sanctions, that's what they mean," Nason says...