Word: pushed
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...will be considered "off budget." It will not be counted as Government spending and will not exacerbate this year's federal deficit. The remaining $20 billion will be in the budget, but slipped in through a loophole in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law, so that the spending will not push the fiscal '89 deficit over the statutory limits and trigger automatic budget cuts. As a result, the '89 deficit will grow to about $168 billion, $30 billion over the target...
That could be limited to the party's suggestion of expanded powers for republics. But it opens the possibility that radicals could push through radical change such as Andrei D. Sakharov's suggested loose confederation of sovereign states, or even the breakup of the union into independent states...
...M.E.s who are too independent may eventually be ousted from their posts, charges Baden, citing his own experience as chief medical examiner of New York City. Former M.E.s in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles put forward the same claim. "No one says lie," observes Baden, "but they want to push you further than the science permits...
Upon reaching the conclusion of Lisa Taggart's editorial ruminations about her recent experience in an elevator (August 8), I was astonished to find that she and her friends had completely missed first base in attempting to understand the Black man's refusal to push the elevator button...
...unlucky floor, Karen's embarrassment changed to anger. "How rude! I should have said, 'Would you push the button for me if I was Black...