Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raise tuition for 1978-79 above $4,825--the level the university's budget committee recommended on February 22. As a result of an increasingly bleak financial picture, there had been talk of another tuition hike besides the $375 hike already announced. But administrators have now agreed not to push for a further increase...
Last week Miller handily passed the test. After five weeks of slipshod investigation, the staff of the Senate Banking Committee had compiled 1,400 pages of testimony and evidence about alleged bribery by Textron to push sales of its Bell helicopters in Iran; leaks had inspired innuendo-filled stories in the press. But in nearly four hours of face-to-face grilling, Miller convinced the Senators that there was no proof that Textron had in effect resorted to bribery, and still less that he as boss had condoned it. In a stinging rebuke to its own chairman, Wisconsin Democrat William...
...fact is that the people who make them are, at best, specialists in convenience foods, stuff that leaves you hungry even as you push away from the table. A Hero ain't nothin' but carbohydrates...
...refusing to change its present settlements policy the Begin government has acted not only to estrange further such hardline Zionist opponents as Syria and the PLO, but to push moderates such as Egypt's President Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein towards the hardliners' position of intransigence. Sadat has made it clear throughout the negotiations that without a change in the settlements policy he could not hope to gain acceptance of a peace agreement either in Egypt or the other Arab nations, and the Begin cabinet's refusal to compromise on this issue can only be seen as a diplomatically...
...think it's assinine to talk about what margin we need to set our voting level at to push our constitution through," Stephen Winthrop '80, a South House delegate, said last night. "If we don't have a strong mandate then we will simply not be the sole legitimate representative of the students, as we say in the preamble...