Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profits oil companies gained from a loosening of price controls. When the measure failed to pass, he switched to the Republican solution--oil price decontrol. He did not, as he should have, make his decision to decontrol oil prices conditional on a strong windfall profits tax. Nor did he push for legislation requiring the oil giants to invest the billions they will gain from his decontrol decision in energy development. (The Senate-passed windfall profits tax leaves the oil companies with a mind-boggling $314 billion take on Carter's decontrol decision. That's more than double the annual appropriation...
Shortly after the program began last year, it was No. 58 on the charts. It has climbed steadily since then, and last week achieved its highest ranking yet. It came in No. 6, helping push CBS to the top of the Nielsens for the first time this season...
...Gold's Gym in Santa Monica, Calif., a man and a woman are straining against two weight machines, grimacing, muscles tightening with the rhythmic push and pull. He is Frank Zane, 37, also known as Mr. Olympia, the top titlist in professional body building. She is Christine Zane, 31, his wife, and she is not working out just because she believes families that strain together stay together. She too is a serious body builder...
...years have passed since this country experienced the progressive shot in the arm which has come to be termed the "Late Sixties." Many movements arose (and subsequently declined) during that era, but one movement which rose up on the crest of the Civil Rights Movement continues to push forward, and remarkably has kept all of its original principles intact. The United Farm Workers' (UFW) Union, led by Cesar Chavez, has weathered 17 years of struggle with California agribusiness and since 1962, has become a viable instrument in representing and protecting farm labor...
Preusser says she has tried to push through home-rule petitions similar to Question 4 since 1978. "The whole allegation that this kind of legislation for the city came about because of the Sparks Street Group is specious," she said...