Word: thrust
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...other words, the Kremlin argues that it would be more tolerant of a U.S. invasion of Mexico than the Carter Administration has been over the Soviet thrust into Afghanistan. What is officially euphemized in Moscow as "the recent events in Afghanistan" is, according to Bykov, "a peripheral issue that exacerbates the overall strained relationship between our countries...
...income tax. Its chief sponsor is Howard Jarvis, the pugnacious architect of the 1978 Proposition 13, which cut property taxes by an average of 56% and set off a series of tax reductions around the country. Though its passage is by no means assured, Proposition 9 is another bold thrust in California's tax revolution. Since 1978, the state has indexed personal tax rates to inflation, put a lid on budget increases and abolished the business inventory tax. Moreover, Governor Jerry Brown has handed taxpayers $695 million in special tax credits. California's treasury has survived all these...
...natural resources studies and the current Urban Design program, to replace CRP. However, McCue says the GSD will probably not be ready to admit students to the new urban planning program until the fall of 1982. Thus far, the school has had three general faculty meetings to discuss the thrust of the new department. "The object was to get the issues out before us so the faculty could think about them over the summer," McCue says, adding that he will form a committee next fall to start working out the details of the new program. Carl F. Steinitz, professor...
Sophomore Mike Davis joined forces with veteran co-captain Dave Wigglesworth to provide the necessary offensive punch. The two midfielders combined for seven goals over the course of the game with four coming during a second and third quarter thrust which set up the 12-8 victory...
Harvard proved less easy to mold than she hoped, but she made a self-conscious effort to thrust herself into University life. She and other members of the Radcliffe-Harvard Dance Co. "decided to start over" and formed a new company with new bylaws. She applied for her special concentration. She says both her senior tutor and the head of the special concentrations office laughed at her, but somehow her petition was granted and she officially began a concentration in choreographic theory...