Word: propellant
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When the President does decide to take a swing, he swings hard. By delivering his reform package with a presidential seal and a prime-time flourish, Bush hopes to propel it through Congress quickly. Last Tuesday morning he met with his aides in the Oval Office to discuss his speech to the nation. Card told him that "here in Washington, this is going to be a huge story." Bush relished the thought of rattling the cages of Washington's institutional bureaucracies; he told the aides that as long as he was announcing something, he wanted it to be dramatic. Said...
...placed seventh in the fall, took third in the 5,000-meter run. Co-captain Carrie McGraw placed second in the 400 and helped the 4x400 relay team to a second-place finish. That was all the Crimson could muster on the track, but it was just enough to propel the team to the runners-up slot...
...from-guaranteed spot on the team. How he joined the ’Cats as a walk-on, turned into their top outside threat and hit 45 percent of his threes during the season. How he knocked down five threes in the Southern Conference title game against Furman to propel Davidson into the tourney...
...NCAA’s pairwise ranking system and lack of automatic bids, a Crimson victory in the ECAC North semi-final over No. 4 Dartmouth (25-5-2) on Saturday will not be enough to propel them into the Frozen Four. Nonetheless, a victory over the top-seeded Big Green, followed by a victory over either St. Lawrence or Brown in the final would silence the naysayers who underestimated the team without its Olympians...
...Harvard follows through on the science scenario and moves science to Allston, they’d likely propel themselves and Boston forward...