Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giant voids. "When I first saw Ed's paper, in 1985," Ostriker says, "it blew my mind." Reason: a vibrating, current- carrying loop is a radio transmitter, and if the current is large enough, the ultralow-frequency radio waves it emits will be incredibly powerful -- strong enough to push surrounding gases and dust incredible distances away from the loop. With Witten and Graduate Student Chris Thompson, Ostriker went to work calculating the effects of the waves. "Again and again," he says, "we thought we had found a fatal flaw, that the whole thing was crackers. But we haven...
...Whether Koop's motive was political or not, his report plunged the nation into a thicket of legal and moral questions. Is it unwise to tell third-graders about anal sex and the connection between sex, AIDS and death? Is it the proper function of a public school to push either abstinence or birth control? Is value-free sex education possible, and if not, whose values will be taught...
John P. Reardon Jr. '60, Harvard's athletic director, says the decision to push the Ivy League teams into Division I-AA reflects a desire by NCAA to cut down "the number of teams getting a piece of the TV revenue...
Harvard students and tutors this week joined members of Boston-area homeless organization in a last-minute push to gain petition support for a proposed right-to-housing amendment to the state constitution...
...fiscal issues the Democrats will probably introduce the sort of restrictive trade legislation that Reagan vetoed last year. Even though the trade deficit is declining, many Senate candidates tapped a vein of protectionist sentiment during the campaign this year, and are sure to push for higher tariffs and quotas on foreign manufactured products and textiles...