Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irrational," Michael E. McLaughlin, chairman of the Middlesex County commission, says, characterizing one of his fellow commissioners, S. Lester Ralph. "He wants to be the total dominating force. He reminds me of Adolf Hitler...If you're in his way, I truly believe Lester Ralph would push you right out a window...
...nomination comes in the middle of a concerted effort by an assortment of Pentagon admirers to assert the cause of higher defense spending at the outset of the Carter Administration. The opening of the current push to expand America's nuclear arsenal was signaled during Ronald Reagan's campaign against former President Ford in the Republican primaries last spring. From New Hampshire to Texas, Reagan charged that the Soviet Union had opened up a dangerous numerical lead in strategic weaponry, a lead that could only be erased by substantial increases in American defense spending. After gaining his party's nomination...
...State Department, there was concern that Carter's pressure to help the Soviet dissidents (see THE WORLD) might have two adverse effects: 1) push the Kremlin to bear down even harder on its restive citizens to show that it is not influenced by outside "interference in its internal affairs" and 2) so sour the atmosphere between the two countries that any arms agreement would be scuttled. Whether by coincidence or design, the Russians arrested Yuri Orlov, a dissident physicist, within 24 hours after the Carter press conference...
...plan will doubtless provide incentives to encourage domestic oil and gas companies to push production. But it also will include safeguards against extravagant profits-possibly a "windfall profits tax" on energy companies that are allowed to raise prices. Finally, it seems sure that the program will not relax tough environmental controls on energy use. David Freeman, 51, Schlesinger's senior aide, puts the point in a gloriously mixed metaphor: "We start out with the cornerstone of our energy policy cut from environmental cloth...
...whose presence makes any American move in Zimbabwe suspect. The economic and military interests of the U.S. in South Africa are closely tied to the preservation of some kind of stability, and a radical government in Rhodesia would probably threaten the white South African regime. If the U.S. can push the Zimbabweans to compromise position, American interests in South Africa will be much safer than if a radical Zimbabwean regime shelters South African freedom fighters just as Mozambique shelters the Zimbabweans now. Such a haven for guerrillas would increase the likelihood of a violent struggle threatening the smooth functioning...