Word: pushes
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...Administration's push on the Middle East took place against a backdrop of ominous new fighting between Israeli and Palestinian forces in southern Lebanon. This provided an extra note of urgency as the first visitor, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, arrived in Washington after a mysterious side trip for some personal diplomacy of his own. He was followed by his counterpart from the most moderate of Israel's adversaries, Ismail Fahmy of Egypt. This week, when Carter and Vance meet with Jordanian Premier Mudar Badran and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, the talk may turn tougher. Khaddam...
This latter feeling, Reisman said, "is part of a more general American adversarial, litigious spirit," a feeling that "they are doing this to me and I'm going to push back...
...board is now trying to restrain the growth of money; in consequence, interest rates are rising. Last week it let demand for money push the Fed funds' rate as high as 6¼%, instead of pumping cash into banks to stop the rise. Other short-term rates are going up too. Chase Manhattan last week led the way for other major banks in lifting the prime rate charged to their best corporate customers by a quarter of a point, to 7¼%, the highest in a bit more than a year. Three-month U.S. Treasury bills, which traded...
...first election in 1967. As State Rep, Barney Frank '61. White's administrative assistant from 1968-71, said about White this week. "He didn't want to get involved with schools." White did campaign for a reform plan in 1973 but it lost. David Smith maintains White's push for Plan 3 was a half-hearted gesture. White has long maintained that he should have direct control of the school's administration and budget, but considering his past behavior and the potential for patronage involved, it makes as much sense as giving Nixon a third term. In all fairness...
...push a point too far would be a mistake. However, other plays being produced this season do fit (at least as well as any other would) into my scheme. Kirkland House is dong The Fantastiks, that longest running of musicals where the characters, a boy and girl who live next door, look far and wide for love only to conclude that there's no place like home. Lowell will probably be producing A Thousand Clowns, that irrepressible story about a non-conformist who hates to work but does it anyway in order to retain custody of the nephew he loves...