Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covert action is undertaken. I'm not the guy who should push covert action. I'm not a policymaker, but if someone who is a policymaker asks, "Turner, what can you do for us in the way of covert action here?" I like to reach in my pocket and have a plan there, ready. A couple of times it [a plan] has been accepted. But on the whole I have not found it a very attractive option...
...Phnom-Penh. But that could not work. Observes Don Tretiak, an American China watcher: "The Chinese should have been more careful about their Cambodian commitment. Supporting a weak but obstreperous ally is very bad politics." Now Peking fears that its deteriorating relations with Viet Nam will push Hanoi further into the embrace of Moscow. Worst of all, if the Vietnamese were to rout the Cambodians, a Kremlin-manipulated puppet regime could emerge in Phnom-Penh and tilt the balance of power in Southeast Asia in Moscow's favor...
...Blumenthal who successfully promoted a fellow businessman, Textron Chairman G. William Miller, to become chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. It was Blumenthal, more than anyone else, who persuaded Carter that to try to push a sweeping tax reform program through this session of Congress would only frighten businessmen. It was Blumenthal, too, who decided in December that the time had come to intervene in money markets to halt the disorderly rout of the dollar, and who won Carter's approval to start the program while the President was traveling overseas...
...conquer. He started at CBS as a whiz kid just a few years out of college and in twelve years there, culminating as chief programmer for entertainment shows, he helped keep the Big Eye on top. Moving over to ABC as head of entertainment in 1975, he helped push it past CBS to No. 1. That left only NBC, currently bottom tube on network row. Last week, to lure Silverman away from ABC, NBC gave him the store. It named Silverman president and chief executive officer in charge of not only entertainment but news, sports, stations, everything...
...working on the energy bill. Nonetheless, Sidey concludes, this Congress actually is less receptive to old-style lobbying than its predecessors: "Back in the days when the big leaders used to roam the halls, lobbyists could find a man or two and work their deals. But today one cannot push buttons and get things done. The issues are so complex and interlocking that about the only way to win major battles is to generate pressure in members' districts. The oil industry probably has worked harder back home than it has in Washington to bring the Congress to its current doubts...