Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gripped the U.S. east of the Rockies are throwing onto unemployment rolls hundreds of thousands of workers, ranging from coal miners in Appalachia to oystermen who cannot chop through the ice in Chesapeake Bay. Soaring prices for fruit and vegetable crops damaged by the freeze are giving a new push to inflation. Worse, even if the weather should warm up suddenly, which hardly seems likely, many economic effects of the Big Freeze will linger on into the spring and beyond...
President is talking in terms of doing it in at least two bites." The first would be an attempt at an agreement, adapting the Vladivostok ceilings in some way that would include the cruise missile and the Backfire. For the second bite, the Administration would push for a SALT in deal with lower overall ceilings...
...York City (-1); Dayton (-21); and Lynchburg, Va. ( - 8). At -19, Chicago experienced its coldest day in this century. Peoria, Ill. ( - 25), had not been so cold since 1884. In Rice Lake, Wis., the temperature plunged to -60-and for two days dog owners had to push their reluctant pets outside to save their carpets...
...barges, weighing some 750 tons each, were shoved atop the sturdy ice like so many giant hockey pucks. Others were crushed by converging packs of ice. Even barges able to move were collecting ice barnacles up to 6 ft. thick on their bottoms. "That makes one hellacious load to push," said a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official...
Although Tanin's government has committed 40% of this year's $3.4 billion budget to the military and police, Thai efforts to push back the rule of the night are sometimes snarled and chaotic. There are bitter interservice rivalries, and undercover agents from different branches seldom pool their information. As a result, intelligence is spotty. Despite all this, Thai troops are performing well, and field officers continue to fight the "other war"-that is, gaining village support. Along the Mekong River, army helicopters rain propaganda leaflets on disaffected villages. The government has devised civic ac- tion programs...