Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano Jr. let it be known that he did not like Carter's niggardly approach to spending for new social programs. Word leaked that Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal thought the President was wrong to push for full-scale tax reform in 1978. Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps blasted Carter's handling of the Bert Lance affair. Said one insider: "The Cabinet does what it wants because it's not afraid of this President. When the Cabinet members screw things up, nothing happens to them...
Firstly, her family has got to be thought about. Because if the girl is going to be the Queen of England, you can't altogether push her family aside. It's got to be a family that fits. It hasn't got to be aristocratic, it's got to be nice-that's all. The girl doesn't have to have a title. She can be Miss Something-or-Other, provided she's suitable as a wife and Queen...
...Rocky, Stallone's Kovak can't really talk. He does, however, mumble a lot, and mumble in convincing fashion, as the union's membership swells to several million under his leadership. Always attuned to the needs of the rank-and-file, Stallone is also aware of the importance of "push," and consequently falls into bad company: he inadvertently sells his soul to the Mafia (in the guise of mobster Babe Milano, played in sleazy enough fashion by Tony Lo Bianco), and watches--along with millions of Americans who saw him do so well against Apollo Creed--as his self-created...
...Stanford Committee on Responsible Investment Policy, the student group that organized the sit-in as well as a noon protest rally, also held a forum last night to discuss the South African issue and possible actions to convince the university to push for complete corporate withdrawal from South Africa...
Crews from Wisconsin, Cornell and Dartmouth will also be there, but their records suggest that only strange conditions could push them in front of the Crimson...