Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, because so few realms of food treatment escape the Hesses' criticism, The Taste of America may almost push the average American eater into the three-pills-day-nothing-more school just because after nearly 300 pages of expose with accompanying invective the invasion and triumph of junk food seems almost unsurmountable. And, after a time, boring. The book suffers on occasion from overexposure, or overexpose as the authors feel compelled to make a number of points over and over, ad nauseum, albeit with different examples. And, while their wit makes enjoyable reading, the sustained sharpness gives the book...
...there a compelling alternative to the Carter program? Many parts of the plan-the stand-by gasoline taxes, the moves to push industry toward using coal-make sense. Moreover, a Democratic President cannot be expected to ask a Democratic, heavily liberal Congress for immediate decontrol of oil and gas prices that would indeed allow oil companies to make enormous profits. Aside from the political realities, such decontrol, as Carter noted, would give the economy an inflationary shock that it could not readily absorb...
When it came time to make the big push to the intersection of Plympton Street and Mass Ave I considered packing it in, but that would have been too easy. So I took a week off and thought about it instead...
Mobutu, some observers speculate that the Katangese invaders may be tempted to make a fast push for Kolwezi...
...were fundamentally sound," senior wing Richie Sherman said yesterday, "but we had absolutely no psyche, no killer instinct, no umph to push...