Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this enterprise. I don't want you to infer that we were sort of a country club before, but it's just that the general nature of competition has forced this organization--just like every other one--to hire better people, to focus better people on topics and to push them a little harder," he says...
...Class of '69 raise a family, move into a stable career, buy a house, and--perhaps--lose a little idealism along the way. In its place comes a little realism some say; others perceive individual interest; and yet others just say that day-to-day concerns naturally push aside the urgency of their old campus activism...
...view we were an able, but sometimes inconvenient afterthought. As woman students we had not been able to improve things for ourselves because we lacked leadership against the immense Harvard bureaucracy. Any triumphs we had achieved, whether academically or extra-curricular, had come to us only with that extra push. Our close friendships sustained us through those four years...
...running a record trade deficit that puts downward pressure on the dollar. A steep plunge could kindle U.S. inflation by boosting the price of imports. Warned TIME Board Member Lester Thurow, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "You could get a dollar shock that could push the inflation rate close to the double-digit level a year from now." Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for New York City's Morgan Guaranty Trust, said that the dollar may stay strong for a while longer, but acknowledged that the financial markets fear a big drop...
...Their mission: to storm the U.S. box office. Leading this year's assault is that renowned soldier of fortune Indiana Jones; he and his hyperthyroid sequel, Temple of Doom, mounted an early attack on 1,685 movie theaters last week, and in the first two days managed to push up the beach and top the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is followed by the crew of the starship Enterprise (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) and by a hardy, ragtag company of mercenaries: punk rockers (Streets of Fire), Jewish gangsters (Once Upon a Time...