Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when less fortunate voters go to the polls later this month for parliamentary elections. For the past six months, he has turned his attention to promoting vast poverty relief and local rule schemes. Still, Gandhi's advisers say that if the Prime Minister is returned to power, he will push forward with deregulation and other reforms. If Gandhi is defeated, his successor may have little choice but to do the same. Says Surjit Bhalla, an economist with the Policy Group, a New Delhi think tank: "After what has happened in the past five years in the global economy, Indian policymakers...
...however, one big European vacation. As an "import"--one of two American players allowed each European team--MacDonald is under a lot of pressure to produce. It's not a new situation for MacDonald: he's always felt a personal, if not an outside, push to succeed...
...said his role was to "push for changes that in some ways have been waiting a long time to happen. There has to be people, not just words on a page...
People may feel assuaged by the promise of new construction. But it won't happen unless residents push for it every single year, regardless of Proposition 1-2-3's passage...
...Prime Minister Mazowiecki has no plans to withdraw Poland from the Warsaw Pact, and an alliance declaration in July forbade the use of pact troops in the affairs of member nations. Still, Poland plans to push for further bilateral assurances. The Soviets are pressing NATO for a mutual phasing out of the Eastern and Western military alliances, but Moscow is certain to reject individual initiatives by pact members. As Soviet spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said last week, "We may witness a change of government in Warsaw or Budapest, but international obligations do not necessarily go away with a change of government...