Word: pushed
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...indicated last week that they had no plans to revise the various applications, deadlines. "We don't see signs of any sharp increase in the number of applications," Russell A. Simpson, director of Admissions at the Law School said. "Even if we did, we probably wouldn't want to push a student to make a decision he may regret later in the year...
This prospect does not surprise many responsible civil rights leaders. For one thing, few Negroes as yet have the money or overriding desire to move into solidly white neighborhoods. The 1966 civil rights bill was, in this aspect at least, ahead of its time. Before the push for open housing can really hope to succeed, the U.S. Negro will have to build up his economic power. In the immediate future, his most important goal will be the full and forceful implementation of all the Great Society and civil rights laws already on the books...
...exemplifies that spirit of machine-tooled pioneering better than British Columbia's Premier William Andrew Cecil Bennett, 66, full-time politician and part-time prophet. He feels that Canada's thin population belt must push into the undeveloped North and the still developing West. "Canada is as broad as the U.S.," Bennett says, "but only half an inch deep. Until we push up from the border, we just won't go anywhere." Bennett himself has been pushing for 14 years, and it is his sort of effort that lies behind Canada's hope for the future...
International Nickel's new town of Thompson is still farther into the wilderness of scrub pines and countless lakes, but shows the new face of the push north. Its curving streets of ranch homes might have been lifted from the split-level suburbia of Cleveland or Chicago and deposited as they are 476 miles north of Winnipeg. On the Nelson River, 579 miles northeast of Winnipeg, construction was started this summer on a $325 million power project, as well as a new $100 million forest industry complex...
...work. On the other side, a large short interest technically promises an eventual upward pressure on the market when the short buy to cover. In an exercise called "squeezing the shorts," artful traders sometimes purchase big blocks of stock that have heavy short positions; the idea is to push the short sellers into buying to cover and driving up the price...