Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Karen looked flustered. "I just didn't want to be rude and reach around you," she said nervously, as he moved aside so she could push button 13. The two women got out as the elevator stopped the third floor...
...renewed urban vitality, is not the social evil for displaced people it has been made out to be. The real culprit, he contends, is the government decision not to build more housing. "People think you have a nice Italian family, and then you have these peace-eating liberals who push them out. Well, that's not the way it works," Whyte argues. "By and large, many steps have been taking place before the so-called gentrifiers move in. They do not buy from the nice ethnic family and kick them out. So much housing has been destroyed. Look...
Council hopeful Rena Leib says that she believes the Rainbow's grass-roots approach may be better able to push for affordable housing and other benefits for the city's disenfranchised, issues which have in the past caused dissension among the CCA ranks...
...talks. He walks. He does push-ups. He sweats. And he is almost inhumanly brave. Well, strike the almost. Manny is a robot, though with a body temperature of 98.6 0 F and a chest that heaves with each "breath," he is astonishingly lifelike. Come October, he will wade into clouds of nerve gas, which his owner, the U.S. Army, would never dare subject a real soldier to. Manny's mission, at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, will be to test protective clothing -- for example, to determine whether walking, bending or sweating might cause the clothing...
...forum on Wednesday sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics, Ye listed one by one the arguments used against sanctions and countered them with his own arguments. One popular view is that sanctions would inevitably push China toward the USSR, Ye said...