Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying to drive me underground...
Harvard's pressing, overplaying defense led to repeated Crusader layups. Perry chose to shoot, drive or pass totally according to what the defense allowed him. "I'm not gunning to be the leading scorer in the game," he said, "I want my scoring to come in the context of us winning the game. Our guys inside were making good baskets tonight. I can't stress how important that...
...Friedlaender, 40, professor of economics and civil engineering at M.I.T., made her mark with a widely influential study of the costs and benefits of the interstate highway system. As head of the women's caucus of the American Economic Association, Friedlaender has been a leader in the drive to get more women into graduate school...
...progress, old biases die hard. Says Carolyn Shaw Bell, a Wellesley College economics professor and a prime mover in the drive to place more women in important economic positions: "There is a clear indication of change at some levels, but the advancement of women has to be pushed if it is to continue...
...Johnson remarked in 1973, "the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food or sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. All cultures that can be called cultures have built monuments-that is, buildings of unusual size and expenditure of effort, that have aroused pride and enjoyment as well as utility...