Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem o get away from them. When I write a story about renovation of old triple-deckers in a neighborhood near Copley Place the developers and the Yuppies are the gentrifiers, displacing the neighborhood's low-income established residents. When the City of Boston tries to push a rent control and condominium conversion control package through the city council, the real estate industry and the Yuppie condo owners stop it. Then Newsweek makes it all official by devoting an issue to the Year of the Yuppie. With such bad press, who would want to be a Yuppie...
After his work with King. Jackson founded People United to Save Humanity (PUSH), a Chicago based community development group...
Although, according to Ferry, DeMaiha and Harvard play a similar style of "push-the-batt-up" basketball, both players admit that they don't really have any special on-court chemistry together left over from high school days...
...travelers, pilgrims, creators, apologists, confessors and prisoners. To some degree these are arbitrary distinctions; the 19th century British painter Benjamin Haydon recorded his financial and artistic woes in 26 confidential volumes. As one of his last exhibitions fails, he laments, "They rush by thousands to see (Tom) Thumb. They push, they fight, they scream, they faint . . . They see my bills, my boards & don't read them." Months later he quotes King Lear, "Stretch me no longer on this tough World," and commits suicide. Is he a creator, a prisoner or merely, as Mallon has it, an apologist...
...about the technological forces that have shaped the modern world. He was there at the creation. His enlisted-man's version of brain-storming days at Los Alamos seizes the spirit of the place with typical zest and informality: "What (Hans) Bethe needed was someone to talk to, to push his ideas against. Well, he comes in to this little squirt in an office and starts to argue, explaining his idea. I say, 'No, no, you're crazy. It'll go like this.' And he says, 'Just a moment,' and explains how he's not crazy, I'm crazy...