Word: thrust
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...storm rages over recruiting in the Ivies. Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti evoked inestimable emotion nine days ago when he called for tight restrictions on recruitment. But Harvard response could be characterized as tepid at hottest. President Bok said he sympathized with the the general thrust of Giamatti's proposals. And Fred Jewett, dean of admission and financial aid, said Giamatti's advocacy of limiting recruiting to on-campus visits was Harvard's traditional position--until two years...
This time, with the bases loaded, he uncorked a high shot to left which Eagle leftfielder Craft circled uneasily but thrust out a glove and found to kill the threat...
Vance further angered the Senators by endorsing the basic thrust of the U.N. resolution against Israel, although that put him in the anomalous position of backing the theme of a resolution that his President had rejected. The Secretary pointed out that the U.S. had long opposed the Israeli settlements as being "contrary to international law and an impediment to the successful conclusion of the Middle East [peace] process." Vance told how the Administration had repeatedly asked the Israelis to show restraint. "The situation grew worse, and it came to a point where it was beginning to jeopardize the success...
...final, necessary thrust is a series of conservation moves, including standby rationing. Without rationing, Bradshaw fears the U.S will face the hard choice of either shortages or import surges in the early 1980s. Domestic reserves are declining, and while there is potential for vast discovery deep below the hostile, ice-choked waters of the Beaufort Sea off Alaska and Canada that will take years to prove and develop. So will solar power, though Bradshaw's firm is spending millions experimenting with it, and "our company will play any wild card in solar. But when we think of alternatives...
With the psychological thrust of the plan blunted, very little remains. Even the administration does not anticipate the budget cuts will reduce the cost of living in the near future. The credit controls apply to a fraction of consumer borrowing too small to be significant. And the 10 cents a gallon fee on gasoline will actually boost the consumer price index an estimated seven tenths of one per cent. Carter seeks to show voters he is doing something now; they will feel the pain later, the benefits never...