Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty's temperament and to act accordingly is what, in addition to his purely managerial skill, determines whether the Dean will have the Faculty's confidence or not; and his whole authority is based on that confidence from the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore the Dean is reluctant to push the Faculty too hard for reforms. When Dean Ford says that the CEP cannot push any harder for the HPC's recommendations, then he is either against those proposals himself or he does not want to risk a Faculty reaction to "too much too fast." Students should exert greater pressure...
...setting the leg and putting on the cast. Within 24 hours, they had the patient on crutches and encouraged him to put as much weight on the broken leg as he could tolerate. This proved to be highly variable. "But," said Colonel Brown, "we did not push if there was pain." One thing that spurred the servicemen on was that they had to be either up and in motion, or lying down with the leg elevated to avoid edema and other complications...
...fool says to push...
...Depression. And while the company struggled to stay solvent, Cantor rose steadily through a series of management upheavals. He became president in 1952, well aware that he had "a very sick company" on his hands. He prescribed heavy cost cutting and an all-out push into the then new wave in retailing: discounting...
Crane--a close friend of Curry--reminded Hayes that "John J. Curry was a human being too." Crane said he had been given undue credit for." Referring to Hayes as a "political pharisee." Crane asked "How far are they going to push me as a person...