Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stone never recovered financially. "And yet," his son says, "I think his reversal helped push me to leave my privileged childhood behind. I finished Hill and spent a year at Yale, but I saw myself as a product -- an East Coast socioeconomic product -- and I wanted to break out of the mold. Then I read Lord Jim. Conrad's world was exotic and lush; it exercised a tremendous allure for me." It also propelled Oliver into a teaching job at a Chinese Catholic school in a Saigon suburb. It was 1965, the year a half million Yank soldiers landed...
Craig Morton, Denver's Super Bowl quarterback of 1978, a former associate of Roger Staubach's in Dallas, calls Elway "simply the best quarterback I have ever seen." As Morton viewed it, the push then to the overtime field goal, which devastated Cleveland, 23-20, was an inevitable extension of the storied drive. At every Bronco stall afterward, the moral was the same. "I knew if anyone could do it, it was us," said Place-Kicker Rich Karlis. "We have John Elway." "When you have John Elway," Bishop said, "anything is possible." "Anytime you have John Elway," said Reeves...
...think we showed a lot of depth," Dowling said. "They were a tough team. We were so psyched to have so many friends and fans at the game. It gave us an extra push...
...Hussein when they visited the U.S. in 1985. Khashoggi proposed a $300 billion fund to develop the area, a kind of Marshall Plan that would serve as an incentive for peace negotiations. Late in 1985, using his DC-8, he visited eight heads of state in ten days to push his plan. But ultimately nothing came of it. Khashoggi says he has brokered many political arrangements, like the arms-for-hostages deal, but always for reasons of business. "I am not interested in politics," he says. "But if it serves my business interest, I'll play the game...
...going through unprecedented one-day drops and climbs, including the worst ever single-day fall on Sept. 11 (86.61 points). The eye-popping volatility of the market was made possible by the steadily increasing computerization that allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to flush through the markets at the push of a button. But for all the action, the Dow managed to spend most of its time in the region of about...