Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several members of Congress said they supportthe measure because thay object to universitiesthat push away the Defense Department with onehand while accepting its money with the other...
...SEEMED AS ROUTINE AS PUNCHING UP a favorite station on the car radio--the simple push of a button. But this time it would kill them. Before lifting off from southern Turkey, bound for northern Iraq on April 14 of last year, the pilots of two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters activated the "friend-or-foe" system designed to identify them to other U.S. aircraft. They set it to frequency 42. That was the setting prescribed in the top-secret "air-tasking order" they received from the Air Force each day they ventured into the part of Iraq policed...
...ruled U.S.-Japanese relations for decades is breaking down. Right through the Bush Administration, U.S. Presidents viewed Japan primarily as an indispensable cold-war ally. Annoyed though they might be by the gargantuan trade deficits that in the U.S.'s view resulted largely from Japanese protectionism, they would not push any trade dispute to the breaking point. In particular, they believed the U.S. must always keep its markets open, whatever its trading partners did--partly out of free-trade principle, partly as a way to reward anticommunist allies. Japan, for its part, grew expert at offering just enough--for example...
Those specters will probably push the two sides to a solution--this time. But other flash points abound. Already there are bitter disputes about cargo flights over the Pacific, complete with threats not to let each other's planes land, and an Eastman Kodak demand that Washington punish Japan for a supposed conspiracy that limits Kodak's sales of camera film there. The squabbling may boil over into global politics: Japan has announced that it will not join the U.S. in refusing to buy oil from Iran...
...Citizen Police Academy is part of the department's ongoing push for community-oriented policing of the city, Williams said...