Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tighter gun laws are disappointed that the present bill omits the two principles that Bobby Kennedy had sought: 1) that every firearm in the U.S. be registered, and 2) that every gun owner be required to seek a federal license. It may take another act of horror to push really effective gun curbs through Congress...
...imparts tiny electrical charges to the billions of airborne water droplets. Once charged, the droplets attract one another, combine, and often plunge to the ground as rain. Even if no precipitation occurs, the reduction of the number of droplets in the air alone improves visibility. Other chemicals, called surfactants, push the fog-clearing process along by relaxing the droplets' surface tension, the contracting tendency that helps give them their particular size and shape...
...teaching fellows had received two "cost-of-living" pay raises between 1962 and 1966, and in the Spring of 1967 the Federation of Teaching Fellows began to push for another increase. The Federation also asked the university to abolish the pay differential between junior teaching fellows (those who have not completed their residence requirements for their Ph.D. degree) and senior teaching fellows (those who have...
...Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, feels that the West must apply selective measures, such as the cancellation of trade and cultural exchanges, to influence the Soviet leadership, which seems to be divided on the Czechoslovak issue. Says Zorza: "There are people in the Politburo saying, 'We have to push them hard because we have already expended so much political capital.' The proper amount of Western pressure could help the moderates win the day. However, this is a dangerous game, and by carrying the boycott too far, we could damage the liberals. The timing has to be precise...
...problem of empty seats persists. airlines may well have to cut back on some flights to increase operating efficiency. In this, they will be getting an extra push from the Federal Aviation Administration, which has tackled the delay problem by proposing traffic-flow limits at congested airports. Nowhere is the saturation of the market-and sky-more glaring than on the run between Chicago and New York, which, with 110 daily flights each way, is one of the world's most heavily traveled routes. United's president, George E. Keck, whose company is one of the route...