Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...envisage a scene of two people standing beside a pool filled with ice water, hesitating to jump in. All they need is a gentle push. And I think that such a push should come from Mr. Carter-on behalf of all the sympathizers of Israel in the U.S. -and others who are sick and tired of continuous war in the Holy Land...
Unfortunately, the statement proves to be a dangling phrase. In the mechanical effort to push Tony toward a catharsis, Wexler loads the script with a series of stagy and unconvincing plot incidents: a suicide, a gang rumble, a gang bang. By the time Tony takes a soul-searching all-night subway ride to arrive at the story's bogus happy ending, the movie has thrown away its subject to lull us with sentimental bromides about Finding Oneself. We might as well be at Roseland...
...ironic, therefore, that the hotelmen are now looking to legalized gambling for their salvation. Sanford Weiner, the publicist who helped push through the referendum in New Jersey that will bring craps and slot machines to Atlantic City, has been retained to head the effort, even though Governor Reubin Askew has vowed to fight such an idea. "Gambling would change our image overnight," says Beach Tourist Chief Cohen. "It would combat the feeling that there's nothing to do here." Agrees Joel Gray, executive vice president of the Doral Hotel: "Gambling can return Miami Beach to a point of prime...
Apart from U.S. pressure, Fukuda has other compelling reasons to push for faster domestic expansion rather than more exports. In the third quarter, Japanese production of goods and services, discounted for inflation, rose at an annual rate of only 4.4%. To a country used to much more rapid growth, that has been a shock. Japanese business firms are failing at the high rate of 1,500 a month, and unemployment, for all the vigor of the export industry, has edged up to 2.1% of the work force. In almost any other country, that would be considered low -but Japanese workers...
...legalizing local walkouts during his re-election campaign this year (he won with barely 40% of the vote in a three-way race). Miller now contends that granting strike rights to locals would promote peace in the coal fields. His reasoning: locals armed with the right to strike could push mine owners to settle quickly grievances that now fester until workers' tempers explode in wildcat walkouts. Wildcats by U.M.W. locals so far this year have cost the coal companies 2.3 million man-days of work. Miners of District 17 in southern West Virginia struck for ten weeks last summer...