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When he finds himself pushed in the background for the baby his wife is to give birth to soon, he flips out and sets a load of bad stuff coming his way in motion.
I am amazed it has not been shown on British TV as it is very comparable to that other magnificent British TV drama "When The Boat Comes in" I would be hard pushed to say which one was better.
Grace Metalious' mega-selling "Peyton Place" (1956) made it to the big screen the following year, and came to represent small-town sexual repressions; moreover, it set a standard for a new kind of soap opera, with its characters' sexual practices pushed up a notch.
The region would be pushed back into violence and terror, instead of continuing its transformation from the bottom up.
People claim that Greenspan’s Fed “aggressively pushed interest rates below a natural level.”
But you cannot argue that he aggressively pushed the interest rate below its natural level.
Both events pushed Yeltsin into his so-called "strategic partnership" with China, with both partners sharing distrust of America acting the dominant hegemon.
The DPRK’s decision to visit Incheon was highly symbolic, for it was there during the Korean War that US and South Korean troops, following a daring landing led by General Douglas MacArthur, defeated the North Korean People’s Army and pushed it back beyond the 38th parallel.
Likewise, money fleeing low US interest rates (and, more generally, industrial countries) has pushed up emerging-market equity and real-estate prices, setting them up for a fall (as we witnessed recently with the flight to safety following Europe’s financial turmoil).
In fact, by the end of last year, capital inflows had pushed the dollar up to levels not seen in more than a decade, owing to expectations of large-scale deregulation, tax cuts, and fiscal stimulus in the form of infrastructure spending and increased outlays for America’s supposedly “depleted” military.
Last year, former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh disclosed that it was actually then-Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, a shrewd and experienced Congress veteran, who pushed India’s economic reform and restructuring.
The longer the crisis is treated exclusively as a technocratic issue, the more strongly the European Union will be pushed toward disintegration.
In fact, because he has pushed harder than his predecessors, his star is falling faster.
Moreover, a protracted period of low interest rates has pushed up asset prices, causing them to diverge from underlying economic performance.
In the corridors around my office, all the economists agree that this factor should have pushed US interest rates up three years ago.
In the UK, where older, alienated working- and middle-class voters (mainly in England) pushed through Brexit, the new prime minister, Theresa May, is fighting to hold her party together.
For example, Indonesian officials have encouraged reform in Myanmar, helped to bring about an end to the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, and pushed for democracy and human rights to be enshrined in an ASEAN political and security community.
As the Nigerian army has pushed into areas previously controlled by Boko Haram, more than two million people have been displaced.
The sunny climate of the eastern Mediterranean draws a steady stream of tourists, and European Union membership in the south has pushed income levels for Greek Cypriots higher than the EU average.
These sanctions have pushed Russia closer to its traditional rival, China; and Putin has publicly identified the sanctions as a hindrance to concluding a peace treaty with Japan.
As European technocrats have pushed for covert integration to resolve the euro and refugee crises, the populists have struck back even harder.
In other recent recoveries, growth often hit 4% or even 5% when increased capacity utilization pushed up productivity and investment.
Indeed, the same relationship between France and the UN that led to the country’s resistance to intervention in Iraq in 2003 has now pushed France to intervene in Libya in 2011.
Whenever Germany pushed détente with Russia too far, tensions flared.
Indeed, the Fed has doubled down on an approach aimed at recreating the madness of an asset- and credit-dependent consumption model – precisely the mistake that pushed the US economy toward the abyss in 2003-2006.
As a result, currency unification has not brought Europe closer to the US; on the contrary, it has pushed Europe further away.
During 2009-2014, developing countries collectively received a net capital inflow of $2.2 trillion, partly owing to quantitative easing in advanced economies, which pushed interest rates there to near zero.
Some were pushed there by the high cost of containing the damage from banks’ irresponsible behavior.
It is when dialogue is pushed beyond the system’s constitutional bounds that the problem arises.
By invoking Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, her government has now pushed Britain’s narrow Brexit referendum decision past the point of no return with minimal controversy, while remaining extraordinarily popular.
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