Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late October Gamassy and his commanders urged Sadat to push hard for a peace settlement; the military, which is the anchor of Sadat's domestic support, pledged to back any move he cared to make. But if Carter's hand was indeed stayed by the U.S. pro-Israeli lobby, there seemed no obvious leverage with which to seek Israeli concessions. To the chagrin of Washington and the outrage of most Arabs, Begin's government had encouraged new settlements in the occupied territories. All told, there are now 51 Jewish settlements on the West Bank, 19 in the Sinai...
...momentum for peace that one high-level Israeli official said he expected these special committees to convene within a day or two. The progress seemed so positive that Sadat invited Begin to stay overnight for further discussions. "Praise be to Allah," said Sadat, "that we have started giving a push forward even before the end of the talks...
Although there are only about 216,000 cars registered in the city, they create monumental traffic jams as they try to negotiate the old, narrow streets or push aside carts pulled by horses or donkeys. The poor wait hours for buses, which are so crowded that passengers ride on the roofs and hang on the sides, clinging desperately to any vehicle that moves in the right direction...
Everybody foots the bill. Bigger educational expenses push up tuitions; higher business costs are passed along to the consumer. Barry Bosworth, director of the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability, feels that excessive regulation is a primary reason why the average annual increase in U.S. productivity slowed from 3% between 1948 and 1966 to 2% since then. Gerald Ford's White House figured that the price of regulation?the cost of bureaucracy along with declining productivity?takes $2,000 out of the pocket of the typical American family each year, a larger sum than is collected in federal...
...energy program that reduces U.S. de pendence on OPEC. The Carter Administration argues that it is doing all it can to get the President's energy package through Congress. In its view, Japan and West Germany are foolishly helping to force up the U.S. trade deficit and push down the dollar by pursuing tight economic policies that keep German and Japanese goods pouring out of their countries in far greater volume than imports are coming...