Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have also avoided confrontation and prevented escalation in the ongoing battle between the activists and the University. The strategy has been a good one, however, because the activists enjoy only the vaguest intellectual sympathy from the student body. Each time protesters take new steps to disrupt University life, they push themselves farther away from a politically apathetic student body...
...problems, Iran under the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini seems increasingly confident and active. Earlier this month Tehran persuaded its partners in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to limit oil production and thus push up the price. Last week it received two high-level envoys from Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most influential power broker in the Arab world, who called the alliance between the two countries "invulnerable." Now Iran is negotiating with France for the return of $1 billion in Iranian funds that were frozen by Paris after the Ayatullah came to power...
...annually. Poaching is rife: last month City wine bars were abuzz with the news that Peregrine Moncreiffe, former head of gilt trading at London's Shearson-Lehman International, had jumped to E.F. Hutton for a salary of about $1.5 million. The newly rich brokerage crowd is helping to push up real estate prices in such flossy London neighborhoods as Kensington and Chelsea, where housing costs have climbed 20% to 30% in the past year...
...Robertson's. While Robertson advocates that the U.S. recognize the Nicaraguan contras as a government in exile, Jackson invited the Sandinista leader to dinner at his home in Chicago and some "backyard diplomacy" under a basketball hoop. Earlier, Jackson participated in drafting a statement that Ortega read to a PUSH meeting, pledging efforts to ease friction with both the Roman Catholic Church...
...began preparing for his return to the pro tour with a regimen of yoga and weight training. Aware of the odds against ever regaining the No. 1 spot he last held in 1984, he has also started to work at a game for which he had never had to push himself before. "I'm going to show my best tennis down the road," he said. "And I also believe . . . that being in such great physical shape is going to help me mentally when things try to bother me on the court...