Word: push
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Today activist Indians throughout the U.S. are determined to push all such holding operations to the limit of their resources, since they have seen the devastating impact of closed-down reservations. The Menominees of Wisconsin had good schools and community services, plus a sawmill owned by the tribe, when they were "terminated" in 1961. Since then, many Menominees have had to sell their lands to pay taxes in their new ownership status. The Indian hospital shut down and sawmill profits dwindled. As a result, the state paid out more than six times as much money in welfare to the Menominees...
While the overall situation seems to be improving, the Foreign Relations Committee report adds, the gains are often so fragile that they could easily be wiped out overnight by a major enemy push. As far as the future is concerned, Lowenstein and Moose claim that both Vietnamese and Americans in Saigon operate on the assumption that U.S. strength in Viet Nam will remain at a level of at least 250,000 for many years. In Washington, planners see only 200,000 remaining-and not necessarily past early...
...Middle East's Fertile Crescent. Other excavations have shown that he also acquired agricultural skills at roughly the same time in what is now Mexico and Central America. More recent discoveries by members of a University of Hawaii expedition in northern Thailand may well push the birth of agriculture even farther back. The Thai evidence suggests that peoples of Southeast Asia tilled the soil more than 2,000 years before anyone began to farm in the Middle East or the Americas...
...inflationary recession. Profits are falling, money is scarce, growth has stalled. The Commerce Department's index of leading economic indicators fell 0.2% in December, the third monthly decline in a row. Industrial production has been dropping since last July. At the same time, rising costs continue to push prices higher. Wholesale prices rose at an 8.4% annual rate last month, the sharpest climb since July; processed foods provided the biggest part of the increase. So far this year, steel prices have been raised on two-thirds of the industry's product mix by amounts ranging from...
...push of rising costs has produced some shocking earnings reports, which further depressed the stock market. General Motors announced a 14% drop in fourth-quarter earnings last week; the company's profit margins have slipped steadily, from 10.3% in 1965 to 7% in 1969. The automakers put on a relatively cheerful public face, but in private they are horrified by their prospects. Lee lacocca, Ford's North American Automotive Operations president, fears that 1970 might be like 1958, when Detroit expected to market some 7.5 million cars but really sold 4.3 million. "The market for cars has fallen...