Word: push
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Kennedy, which had been running at about $250,000 a week, began picking up after the victories, but not enough to permit him to match Carter's well-financed, well-organized campaign in the remaining primaries and caucuses. Even so, Kennedy decided to make a last-minute push in this week's primaries in Kansas and Wisconsin, where Carter had seemed to be entrenched. Then he will concentrate on the next big urban, industrial state primary: Pennsylvania on April 22, where Carter in 1976 locked up the nomination...
...Forum had begun to answer the question, initiating workshops, panel discussions and lectures on issues of concern to women students. The Forum's recent push to establish a women's clearinghouse, its support of a grass-roots coalition for a women's studies concentration, and its establishment of grants for House activities on women's studies reflects a commitment to women's issues not shown elsewhere on campus...
...union will push for a substantial wage increase, given the rate of inflation, Fred Waldron, spokesman for Local 26, said yesterday. Though he refused to specify the percentage increase, Waldron said the union considered it the "number one priority...
Duehay estimated the increase would cost the average resident $500 to $900, and push the city's tax rate over...
...Research of the Principle (CARP), a group which members say owes its "inspiration" to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, began the afternoon heckling. Within an hour, they were jumping out of the crowd and toward the stage, flailing, screaming about Communist aggression, conspiracies, treason. Finally the police come to push them away. "Whose side are you on," one of the Moonies asked the cops. "Yours--but they've got a permit," a policeman answered. A tactical retreat, and then the Moonies regroup to hand out literature at the edge of the rally...