Word: push
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...neither the rhetoric, nor the volunteers, nor the money that has trickled in since the Iowa debate can push Anderson to the ten percent finish he seeks in New Hampshire. In Concord and Manchester, for example, his Republican brethren lined up the party regulars months ago. And in the State's vast rural regions, even the Democrats are conservative...
Carter's 1981 "recession" budget will push the national unemployment rate up to about 8 per cent. According to the Congressional Budget Office, nearly one out of four black Americans will be jobless. These blacks constitute the "disadvantaged" and "long-term unemployed" of America's cities. Yet somehow Carter has taken away their jobs, not put them to work. The president has also promised to "provide fiscal relief to the most hard pressed communities," to fund neighborhood organizations, to "provide additional social and health services to the disadvantaged people in cities" and to "improve the urban physical environment"--more...
While many provisions of the charter are likely to win broad congressional acceptance, some will stir hot debate. Liberals are expected to fight against the limited permission to spy on Americans overseas. Other Senators and Congressmen will surely push for fewer restrictions on the intelligence agencies. Democratic Senator Pat Moynihan of New York has already introduced his own bill, which would make it a criminal offense for anyone to publish classified material or the names of agents still on active duty. In contrast, the Administration-backed charter would confine the criminal offense to CIA officers or former officers, exempting third...
...technologies with immediate application. Like physics research in the computer age, biomedical research has recently entered the commercial marketplace. The success of recombinant DNA work has turned basic research into applied science. Corporations have now entered the science game looking for quick profit. Carter sees that cutting research would push many scientists into industry and damage longterm prospects for future achievements. The imaginative ideas that offer practical benefits have often appeared at the end of a road dotted with less practicable but nonetheless critical ideas. Promising money to those who offer quick and patentable ideas can only hurt science...
...inflation. It costs 18% to 20% more to make a tire this year than last: the prices of synthetic rubber and other petroleum-based products helped boost the bill for raw materials by 20% to 25%, and the new union contract signed last July could push labor costs up by as much as 40% over the next three years. But even before the cost crunch hit, the industry was suffering from its slowness in the early 1970s to make radial tires...