Word: pushed
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Beyond Tokenism. The motive is part altruism, part profit. In many cities, poor and unskilled nonwhites now constitute almost the only untapped or underused reservoir of labor. Moreover, businessmen recognize that the economic health of cities is vital to the health of their own companies. The recent push by U.S. business to employ "hardcore jobless" has moved beyond tokenism to a substantial commitment to help quiet the smoldering volcano of urban unrest...
Ebert pointed out that the health budget may face further reductions from Congress. In past years, the chief supporters of the federal health program, Rep. John E. Fogarty (D-R.I.) and Sen Lister Hill (D-Ala.), have been able to push through the President's proposed NIH budget. But Fogarty died last year, and Hill, who is chairman of the Health Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is not seeking re-election in November...
...second Dow demonstration was a mess. The great political issue was whether or not to push William Bentick-Smith out of the doorway he filled at Massachusetts Hall. Bentick-Smith was not doing anything unusual. Massachusetts Hall has been locked to undergraduates for 300 years. And even if they could get inside--even if this time they could have entered the sanctum of the Administration--they would not know what to do with themselves...
...Leathernecks, taking grim note of each setback, only pressed the enemy harder. Sharpshooters with high-powered scopes hunkered down behind battlements in "secure" sections of the Citadel wall, squeezing off occasional rounds at moving targets. As they waited out the weather for air cover or rested for their next push, the unshaven, dust-covered Marines sipped endless cups of powdered coffee, occasionally breaking out a liberated magnum of French champagne to accompany their C rations...
Both of them agree that they are in good enough physical condition to break four miles. Had Baker felt well enough to run with Shaw at Dart-mouth and force the pace, one of them could well have done it. As it was there was no one to push the sophomore once he took the lead...