Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision by the American people. The people have no commitment to the Shah. To make a decision, the people must know the truth, and the press has failed in its mission to seek and spread the truth. It has bowed to special interests. It is helping push us towards a war with Iran that would be disastrous for the whole world...
...will be soon, and will be in want of makeup. Back at the makeup counter, you shrink under the sullen gaze of the desperately nubile females trapped in their placards. There are piles of solemn light green pamphlets like the AWAKE pamphlets the Jehovah Witnesses push on passersbys. IS SKIN PERFECTIBLE? catechize the covers. Is man? you think is the older question, but inured to devaluations of this sort, you study the booklet from cover to cover...
...another literary toy. A designer has created small dolls that "move when you push their helmets." Pushkins, they're called...
...course, are not the only people paying premium prices. Some upmarket shopping is strictly self-indulgent and "Me Generation" snobbery. Candy consumption is down, but status-hungry consumers are still gobbling up items like Godiva, chocolates at $12 per lb. L'Oréal hair-care products push the message to shoppers: "L'Oréal is more expensive, and I'm worth it." Still, says Lord & Taylor Chairman Joseph E. Brooks, "I do not think there will be promiscuous luxury buying of gifts...
...days on the job, every new headquarters employee at Gelco has to be comprehensively interviewed: How do you like what you are doing? What can we do to make your job better? Says Bud Grossman: "We are involving our employees in a lot more decision making. If we can push decision making down to the lowest level, we will do better." And it may well be that the whole economy will do better...