Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Real Victims. Financially, the Credit Society has its outcasts and victims. For all the vigor with which lenders push credit, some people find they cannot get any. Janet Brooks, 30, paid cash for all her major purchases for her first nine years after graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit because she feared she lacked the self-discipline to handle credit. Now, as co-owner of a recently founded catering business, she needs credit; the business cannot borrow unless Miss Brooks and her partner, another single woman, prove their personal creditworthiness. Says Janet: "I've tried Master Charge, Carte...
...most important legislative push this year will be an effort to police collection agencies. A bill to place them under federal regulation passed the House last year but died in committee in the Senate. It will be revived this year. It is a needed piece of legislation; the practices of some bill collectors are still outrageous...
...have dropped vague hints that the lifetime-security idea may not be totally out of reach. Officially, however, the steel bosses held their tongues. J. Bruce Johnston, vice president of U.S. Steel and chief negotiator for the Big Ten companies, did say that any rise in labor costs would push up the price of steel. Abel's reply: "Pricing is one thing we don't get involved with here...
Dismaying Delay. Though Andrus said that the untapped gas in the fields would have helped ease the winter's gas shortage, he declined to judge the producers. Still, he vowed to push them to boost output. Noting that his department has the power to cancel leases, Andrus said: "I am prepared to order production." The major leaseholders, such as Texaco and Continental Oil, denied any wrongdoing and promised to cooperate fully with the investigators...
Acosta will be up against many highly organized teams with full-time coaches, which will put him at a disadvantage. "It's really difficult to get out there and push hard when there's nobody yelling and screaming for you, telling you what you're doing wrong...