Word: propelled
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Running back Bill Heyde led the Green charge in the second half, scoring twice from the one to propel his team to a 20-14 lead...
Each black student must, therefore, act on his or her own. Each must, in the words of Booker T. Washington, "drop you bucket where you are," which means that each student must act within his or her immediate context, and wait not upon the weight of the herd to propel change...
...that had triggered it?changed the diplomatic outlook for the Middle East. Ever since Anwar Sadat undertook his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem last November, the focus had been on the pursuit of peace and the chance that, despite all the subsequent setbacks, the Egyptian President's initiative could somehow propel the protagonists toward an unraveling of their ancient grievances. Now, suddenly, the talk of peace was replaced by grave concern about a renewal of the old Middle East "cycle of violence," as U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance called...
Thus, even if the center-right wins, the immediate postelection period might produce a small but embarrassing rise in the unemployment rate. Prices, too, are likely to climb; increases in rail, utility and public housing costs are already in the pipeline and threaten to propel inflation past the present rate of 7%. Similarly, France will come under increasing pressure, along with other Western industrial nations, as Third World countries continue to challenge it with their improving industrial strength. Such factors, coupled with disappointment over the left's defeat, might create a wave of strikes or demonstrations by exasperated workers...
...plan must be approved by the Japanese Diet, Hirokichi Yoshiyama, president of Hitachi Ltd., said, "Its effect will not be visible" until the end of the fiscal year next March. Washington policymakers were more generous. One Treasury official described the plan as a "kick in the back" that will propel the non-Communist world's second largest economy forward. Said he with a sigh: "Now if we could only get the Germans to reflate as well...