Word: pushes
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Graham, who is also a member of the PBH's boardof directors, says the BSA's new push towardcommunity service is the beginning of "a goodtrend...
...sticks, he wants to repeal the16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax in the first place. Legislators do not expect to act before the 1996 elections, butTIME Washington economics correspondent Suneel Ratansays the Republican primaries promise to become a healthy free-for-all in which each candidate will push his own tax reform plan...
...getting his clients in trouble. At a roast in California on May 15, Rollins, a part-time volunteer for Bob Dole, suggested that California Democrat Willie Brown might run for mayor of San Francisco -- and not Los Angeles -- because Brown didn't want to let "Hymie boys" from L.A. push him around. It was the kind of gaffe that might have paralyzed a fledgling presidential campaign. But at Dole headquarters in Washington, no one came unhinged. Instead, sources told Time, campaign manager Scott Reed telephoned Rollins last Monday and asked him to step down. Ed Rollins no longer works...
...adversary sees the U.S. keeping its commitment somewhere, it deters the second. Nobody in the world is anxious to fight the U.S. if they judge that we are serious." McPeak acknowledges that the Clinton Administration's shaky relations with the military make it unlikely that this Administration would push to replace the two-war strategy with a more modest pledge, although the Pentagon's civilian leaders quietly suggested it two years ago. "They got their shins kicked," says McPeak. "It has to be a hard-line guy who says, 'This is silly...
...refuse to give up the fight. They plan to redouble their effort to throw out their opponents in Congress. "We will make it clear to longtime incumbents that you can't get out from under term limits," says Paul Jacob of U.S. Term Limits, the largest group behind the push. "If the court doesn't hold you to them, the voters will...