Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk about those ideas, because he wanted to keep the spotlight on tax cuts rather than spending cuts and feared that loophole closing could be represented as a tax increase. Thus he was reduced to asking the public to trust him to find the necessary cuts and push them through Congress. Polls show voters increasingly unwilling...
...most significant decision not just of the campaign but of his first term. He could sign and reverse 61 years of social policy by converting an open-ended federal guarantee of assistance to the poor into a largely state-administered program with time limits on benefits designed to push most of the recipients into work. Or he could veto and continue a system most Americans have loudly insisted must be reformed...
...advocates of signing had strong policy arguments too: the welfare system really did trap people in a cycle of idleness and dependence, just as Clinton had said; something had to be done to lure or push them into productive work; the bill at hand was the best and possibly last chance the President would get to reform it. Yes, it contained very objectionable features: a sharp cut in food stamps and a ban on many social services to legal immigrants. But the President could in conscience sign the bill while decrying those features and pledging to work to revise them...
...even a modest reformer prevail in a deeply conservative region? Qatar has a defense agreement with Washington, but the U.S. may not protect an Emir who is cozy with Iran and Iraq. Qatari traditionalists and some Western analysts believe it is naive to push democratic values in a society where many customs have remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. Over lunch, Hamad did something that still seems unthinkable to many. He introduced one of his three wives, Jassem's mother, who was modestly dressed in an ankle-length suit rather than in the customary robe. As she spoke of improving...
...dollar data monsters that are the Cadillacs of the information highway. Most of the growth in computing these days is coming from small firms wiring up new networks with inexpensive computers. These small machines generally sell for thousands of dollars, not millions, and they are selling fast enough to push upstarts like Dell to the front of the market, well ahead...