Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand, the professor said he does not think he could fit Gen Ed 180 into the Core, which does not favor interdisciplinary classes. "It's an orphan," he said of the course. "When I first came here, there was a big push toward multi-disciplinary projects. But around the time the Core was established it kind of waned...
...economists were less certain about the direction of interest rates. The outlook is clouded by the other huge deficit that has been bedeviling the economy: the $200 billion federal budget shortfall. Although that ominous gap tends to push interest rates higher, the relatively weak economy has resulted in less demand for credit. The board was divided over which way rates are headed in the next six months. Some members felt they are likely to fall slightly, while others expected them to edge...
Larson would go home and write that "you could have mowed the grass with a push mower. Part of the left-field fence had blown down. The dugouts looked more like bus-stop shelters. The bleachers were rickety. And the wind had bent the light poles at rakish angles...
Secretary of the Treasury James Baker carries with him a few quotes collected over the years from some of the experts. One is from 1982 by New York Financier Felix Rohatyn: "Huge deficits will push interest rates higher until the economy really goes into a nose-dive." Interest rates did not go up, and the economy has not gone down. But even Reagan loyalists like Baker know that it is getting harder to conjure up the swans with all the ugly-duckling economic facts that now crowd the water...
...wanted to appeal to a wide range of people, and show them that there are other ways to push for divestment than protest marches and takeovers," says Tina Smith '83, a GSAS student who was one of the founding members of the Endowment...