Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spikers played their most intense volleyball of the season, fighting fiercely to push the contest with Stroudsburg to five games...
Created in February 1984, when the three-year-old ARTS network (a co-venture of ABC and the Hearst Corp.) acquired the programming of the defunct Entertainment Channel, A&E is in the midst of a major push for viewers and visibility. During the first three months of this year, the network is introducing 45 new programs or series and has launched a multimillion-dollar national advertising campaign to promote them. More than 12 million cable homes now receive some or all of A&E's 20-hour-a-day schedule, usually as part of their basic cable service. Though...
...attack. In its roughly 30-minute flight from a silo in Siberia to detonation on top of a Minuteman silo in North Dakota--or above the White House--a Soviet warhead would go through four well-marked stages: 1) Boost. The rocket engines of, say, an SS-18 missile push it up through the atmosphere and into space. 2) Post-boost. On reaching the edge of space five minutes or so after launch, a device known as a bus detaches itself and maneuvers for another five minutes or so, releasing up to ten MIRV (for Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry...
That traditional protectiveness of the community can come to look something like class warfare. As skid rows overflow with the homeless, residents of nearby middle-class neighborhoods who feel threatened will often push back. Says one Yonkers woman: "Why can't they improve the quality of their lives without taking away from mine...
Even inside the White House, there was uncertainty about when to announce the new scheme and how vigorously to push it. McFarlane urged a go-slow approach, but Reagan's political advisers wanted the President to express a large, fresh idea in his next defense policy speech. Thus the President unveiled Star Wars in a televised address on March 23. Reagan's science adviser, George Keyworth II, excluded from the loop until five days before the speech, now talks with relish about the bureaucracy's "surprise, if not shock, at this demonstration of top-down leadership...