Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands and knees are swollen with arthritis but who continues to manage a San Francisco clothing store and has even run in the city's 7.6-mile "Bay-to-Breakers" road race. "I feel sure that she is experiencing the physiological impulses of pain," says Levine. "When you push her, she'll admit that there are certain things she tends not to do; for instance, she can't lift big bundles of clothing any more." But, he says, she refuses to use the word pain...
What would you say to purely tactical advice? Over the years I picked up several emotional maneuvers that might serve you well as contingency plans. When lonely, for example, read murder mysteries; I find them soothing. When angry, choose solitude. When lovesick, do push ups, run a mile or two, or step out with the boys; I don't know why that helps, but it does. When bored, see the movie Bringing Up Baby. When in despair, dress to the nines. I often wear a white shirt to work when I want to pit elegance against the fates...
...report criticizes the tendency to sacrifice communities courses to fulfill admissions requirements." "Educators have long observed that pre-medical requirements and prevailing admissions others push college students into majoring in science and stir anxieties that distort the course election and ever, the extracurricular activities of many undergraduates," Bok continues...
After years of quiet existence, a group of Black faculty and administrators became suddenly aggressive this year, focussing a harsh spotlight on Harvard's minority hiring record. And while the activists have taken care to stress the cooperative facets of their push for affirmative action, the stridency of their statements this year has betrayed a certain impatience with some of their official colleagues...
Recently, though, Verba has led a new push on section leaders and now provides funds through his office for lunch meetings between section leaders and professors. He encourages the use of the Danforth Center to improve classroom skills and has instituted an English as a second language program for foreign teaching assistants. The problem, he says, is a significant one and one that will continue to plague administrators and students...