Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eight freshmen have appeared in Crimson sweaters this year, and its has been their efforts that have helped to push the squad to its national ranking and second-place finish in the ECAC...
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Jackson said divestiture "would set the pace for other universities. At Yale, Brown, Columbia-the students on those compuses would then have the momentum [to push their schools to divest]. The Harvard move would not be left in isolation...
...days after the big push kicked off, the Vietnamese had achieved their objectives, driving the Khmer Rouge from their most important base area; Western diplomats in Bangkok called it Viet Nam's greatest victory in its six- year-old war in Kampuchea. More than 40,000 civilians normally under Khmer Rouge control spilled into Thailand, some 25 miles south of the camps holding 60,000 refugees who had fled earlier in the assault when the Vietnamese rolled over non-Communist resistance units. Khmer Rouge guerrillas who had fought around Phnom Malai began to filter in the opposite direction, deeper into...
Economic necessity, not serendipity, will push libraries into the computer age. Electronic data are easier to store and cheaper to move from place to place than printed material. On the other hand, most readers prefer browsing through books and magazines to reading little green words on a video screen. And nobody seems eager to take on the Herculean task of transcribing into bits and bytes the vast body of knowledge already stored in printed volumes. "The book is here to stay," says New York Public Library President Vartan Gregorian, who presided over that library's computerization. "What we're doing...