Word: push
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Europeans, however, have been growing increasingly cool to the idea of sanctions. Explained Italian Columnist Alfredo Pieroni: "The hostages are not a global problem. In a world thirsty for petroleum, it is not productive to push one of the great oil producers into the arms of the Soviet Union." Said a senior West German Chancellery aide: "The trick with sanctions is to squeeze the Iranians enough to be persuasive without alienating them entirely. But in the long run, sanctions never work anyway...
...push for the slips of paper was so frantic that Army paratroopers had difficulty maintaining order. Yet the sense of urgency was well founded. Jimmy Carter had just taken strong steps to end the chaotic flow of refugees across the Florida Straits in dangerously crowded boats, but he had emphasized that his celebrated "open arms" policy of the previous week would still apply to close relatives of Cuban Americans already in the U.S. They could come to America, Carter said, if Fidel Castro would agree to let U.S. officials screen the would-be exiles and allow them to board American...
...Egyptians appear to share the European dismay that the U.S. has not done more to push Israel toward compromise. Since the last round of autonomy negotiations ended in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzlia two weeks ago, Cairo's negotiators have grumbled about the timid conceptual approach adopted by the U.S. at the bargaining table. Despite his valiant efforts to find common ground between the two sides, U.S. Special Middle East Ambassador Sol Linowitz has been criticized in Cairo for failing to rise above an arbitrator's role and assume a more forceful position in the negotiations...
...midst of Title IX equality gibberish, women's sports got an administrative push, and the women responded. An influx of coaches; the appearance of amenities such as lockerrooms, uniforms, traveling budgets, and so forth; as well as a gradual effort to attract more high school-trained women athletes, turned around such programs as basketball soccer, lacrosse and swimming...
Behind the push by business to improve employee writing is a recognition that bad writing costs money. "We can't do anything with their engineering if they can't explain it to us," says an Amoco supervisor in Wyoming. "I don't have time to fiddle around with their ideas unless they've worked them into shape." As Gene Cartwright, a manager at Standard Oil of Indiana, puts it, "Companies are built around reports." Robert L. Craig, an official of the American Society for Training and Development, goes further. Poor writing, he insists, is a significant...