Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other 10 per cent is what he has actually done, and all of this is wrapped up in his push for succession. Somehow I fail to see how this actually benefits the people of Mississippi. It would be different if he were pushing for better schools, better health care, more commerce, etc., but these have been almost entirely ignored...
...mind and begin sharing some of the burdens of growth have been rendered counterproductive by the way the Carter Administration has wielded the dollar as if it were some sort of international shillelagh. That attitude has merely aroused suspicions in Bonn that Washington is once again trying to push its own inflation off on its friends. Says William Pfaff, associate director of the Hudson Institute Europe consulting firm in Paris: "There is a feeling in Europe that Washington is interested in Europe when it wants something from Europe, and that otherwise Washington has its own problems and doesn...
...even louder. Last week the Government reported that the February Wholesale Price Index for finished goods, which foreshadows retail prices, jumped at an annual rate of 14%, nearly double the January rise and the biggest monthly leap since November 1974. Food, which did more than anything else to push January consumer-price increases back to a 10% annual rate, propelled the February wholesale surge, climbing 2.9%, the biggest monthly boost in more than three years...
...Radcliffe. Radcliffe is going to have to make an effort to win back its student allegiances," Comstock says, adding that Radcliffe could do this by taking stronger stands on such issues as housing, admissions, financial aid, work study, and women's studies. Comstock feels the Radcliffe administration should push to maintain at least one House with a one-to-one female-to-male ratio, and that more female applicants to Harvard-Radcliffe should be recruited...
...took only two of nine preliminary bouts and failed to qualify for the finals. He lost numerous close bouts, 5-3 and 5-4, due, in part, to nervousness and the pressure of knowing that if he qualified, the automatic 20 points he would gather for the team might push them into...