Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television crews and slightly incredulous reporters. His mission: to offer optimistic words of moral assurance about South Africa's embattled white regime, whose leaders he had just met during a whirlwind five-day visit. He urged the good Christian folk of America to buy up gold Krugerrands and push U.S. "reinvestment" in South Africa...
Overweight and diabetic, Tiedge began drinking too much. His three teenage daughters frequently found themselves fatherless in the family's one-story white stucco bungalow in Cologne. Tiedge's superiors knew about his problems, but they feared that switching him to another job might push him over the edge. But by that point, he may already have gone over. Among Tiedge's contacts may have been the three suspected East German agents who recently vanished. Sonja Luneburg, 61, longtime personal secretary to Economics Minister Martin Bangemann, and Ursula Richter, 52, a bookkeeper for a lobbying group, each disappeared while...
...workers' concern stems from Harvard's announcement earlier this month that it is considering outside management to solve club financial problems that include recent job turnovers and high labor costs. Workers said they fear a private company would push union labor out to pay lower wages to non-union workers...
...goals and visions have not been conservative or cautious," says Lewis, who terms Fox a visionary. She cited Fox's commitment to coeducation during the integration of Radcliffe in the 1970s, and his push for equal funding for women's athletics...
Without Harvard to push around anymore, things would be a whole lot quieter in Cambridge, too. For one thing, there would be many fewer disputes between academic and blue collar neighbors...