Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must react if we are to push the war and its aftermath off the mainstage of our national consciousness, not to be forgotten but to be surpassed. We must confront our Vietnam experience and all that it represents; we must respond to it; and then we must move on with a renewed sense of vitality and purpose...
Oilmen are fearful that Iran will soon go a step further and simply cut back its production by a flat 700,000 bbl. With the world market tight, any such reduction would push up prices sharply, especially for single shipment cargoes that are sold on the so-called spot market, where more and more of the world oil trade now takes place...
This process, known as petrodollar recycling, has pushed up the debts of the less developed nations to $300 billion. Many nations are so weighed down with debt that bankers are growing wary of lending them more. Yet if they cannot borrow, poor countries will have trouble importing more oil. Without energy, their economies will slump, exports will shrivel, and they may default on existing loans. At the extreme, that would threaten some of the lending banks with failure, and the U.S. Federal Reserve would have to push the money printing presses into overdrive to bail them out by advancing huge...
...This push marks still another turn in Indian militancy. The celebrated cases in which Indian tribes claimed ownership of huge tracts of land now seem headed for compromises. In Maine the Penobscots and Passamaquoddies, who once demanded 12 million acres, or two-thirds of the state, have come down to 300,000 acres, and may well settle for less. Meanwhile, cases arising out of how land and resources are used have multiplied startlingly; there now are an estimated 7,000 claims in 30 states...
...progressive party platform while Jimmy Carter garnered the nomination. The result, DA literature says, was "one of the most socially important documents of our time." In 1978, the coalition, by then named the Democratic Agenda, surprised Carter forces at the Democratic midterm conference in Memphis with a strong push for delegate selection reforms and resolutions aimed at holding the president to previous commitments on tax reform, health insurance, social services, and other campaign promises. If nothing else, DA embarassed Carter...