Word: pushed
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Arcs & Ranges. If the continents are moving away from each other across the Atlantic, they must be moving toward each other across the Pacific, because the earth is a sphere and they have nowhere else to go. As they move, their leading edges push against the crust of the ocean bottom, sometimes thrusting it down in deep trenches, sometimes bending it upward to form curving arcs of islands, like Japan. High mountain ranges like the Andes rear up behind the edges of the advancing continents, and where the rocks bend and break, lines of volcanoes spout their fire...
...program may be the reason why greater coordination has not been reached. The advisors cling to their autonomy in the Houses, Prout explains, and Prout himself, according to Michael A. Savin '65, president of the Harvard Radcliffe Pre-Medical Society, is just "too busy," despite his genuine concern, to push them together...
...theoretically possible that the new government will take a progressive president and give him the power to push the reforms through which Goulart was powerless to achieve; this is the liberal justification for U.S. support of the coup. But given the political complexion of the new regime, and the past history of the man who made up its leadership, such reform is not likely to take place...
...telephone interview Friday, Mrs. Bunting said her absence wouldn't come during a crucial year for Radcliffe. "It's actually a pretty good time as far as policy questions are concerned. The year after next will be the year for the really big push on the Fourth House." Only the actual construction of the study center is scheduled for next year, she said...
...economics ministry reported to him that Bonn's trade surplus for 1964's first two months was running at a staggering annual rate of $2.4 billion. Erhard sees the pile-up of export-earned foreign exchange as another spur to inflation, which is already getting a push from a huge in flux of foreign capital ($725 million in 1963) attracted by the high yields of German securities. Last week, determined to try and keep Germany an island of relative stability in the rising sea of European inflation, Erhard ordered drastic measures to curb foreign investment...