Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton defensive back Jim Anderson, who was having an outstanding game, came up with the ball, and the Crimson push was foiled...
...strange because I was cruising along by myself," the top seed said. "It's more enjoyable to start in the middle of the pack and push yourself...
...certain extent, Baker's moves have been dictated by necessity. He came to recognize that the Latin debtors needed more help than they were getting. It was hardly good policy to push austerity programs that fostered social unrest in Latin America at a time when the U.S. was fighting Communist- backed revolutionaries in the same area. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, contending that the monstrous debts pose a grave threat to South - America's democracies, has called for "the contemporary equivalent of the Marshall Plan." Kissinger praised Baker's plan as a "major departure," but cautioned, "I feel that...
Those competing values are increasingly set against each other as Americans face more and more screening designed to combat drugs, drunk driving, terrorism, on-the-job thievery and, most recently, AIDS. Major league baseball players last month temporarily deflected a push for voluntary drug testing. The metal detectors familiar at airports are now found at many government buildings. In the first six months after the Dade County courthouse in Miami installed a detector last year, an amazing 3,000 weapons were discovered. Peter Bensinger, former administrator of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, estimates that about one-quarter of FORTUNE...
...reasoning behind the spiral of political activism desired by many Harvard members is still mostly cloudy. Many members of our community do not seem prepared to relinquish their scholarly claim to independence as they push for increased Harvard interaction with the community. It appears that many Harvard members believe you can have your cake and eat it, too, as long as you shelter behind the protective shield of veritas...