Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton Administration began a new push for a global boycott of Libyan oil in an effort to force President Mummar Gadhafi to turn over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Britain and France, who also want to try the Libyan intelligence officers, have agreed to help. But Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in announcing the plan today, conceded that it would be tough to persuade the rest of Libya's dozen-odd European customers to scrap flourishing oil deals with the country. President Clinton, mindful of pressure by families...
...belief that a hands-off policy is best," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of the international division of Goldman Sachs. "If the Federal Reserve raised rates and it didn't work, then they are really in a quandary" because the central bank would be under pressure to push rates even higher. Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Rudiger Dornbusch concurs: "We should stop doing something every time something moves" and allow the dollar to find its own level. A cheap dollar helps U.S. exports by lowering their price in foreign markets, and that can improve the U.S. trade balance...
...count, some 75 counties have already adopted or are considering measures that contest federal rights over public land within their borders. The new push for local land control resembles the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s, when Westerners fought the Federal Government over land-use issues. The new drive, however, is better organized and more widely supported. The Western States Coalition, founded only 13 months ago, advocates local land control and has the support of hundreds of county and state officials and private interest groups. The coalition is pushing to give ranchers and others greater access to federal lands...
...proposed budget, which calls for the elimination of 5.8 full-time staff positions, would push average enrollment even higher, said Toni Preston, chair of the parents council...
...situation on the CUE does not change, Simons said he would push thecouncil to take further action...