Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-liners reduces those goals to impossible dreams. But it does not by any means solve Deng's political problems. On the contrary, Li Peng is widely regarded as a drab mediocrity -- and a potential scapegoat for having allowed so much popular discontent to surface. Deng might | try to push him aside once order has been restored. And what price have the hard-liners had to pay to guarantee the military's allegiance? "The party must control the guns," Mao wrote. "The guns must not control the party." But in China's postwar history, the military has frequently filled political...
...done with Rose Garden ceremonies." An example came earlier this month when Cavazos unveiled a report showing that the performance of U.S. students remained "stagnant." The Secretary said the lack of progress "scared" him, but all he proposed to do was urge Governors and school board presidents to push for higher graduation rates. "He keeps telling us that the problems are disgraceful, but he doesn't come up with any solutions," says Jeanne Allen, education policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation...
...range would give us more territory in which to hide them, thus making the deterrent safer, and it would give us greater flexibility about actually using them. The farther back, the more likely the missiles will survive until you need them. But we have to be careful not to push the Germans. At this point, we have the luxury of being in the research stage and of not having to push anyone on the deployment question at a time when their circuits are overloaded. My view is that we shouldn't force answers to questions before we have...
Such considerations helped spur the rally last week even as governments | dumped billions of dollars onto foreign exchange markets in an effort to push the U.S. currency down. Traders continued to snap up dollars after Washington reported that, with exports up 7.4%, the U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $8.86 billion in March, down from $9.82 billion the previous month. A day later investors shrugged off the news that the Consumer Price Index rose a sharp 0.7% in April because the gain reflected a record 11.4% surge in gasoline prices that is not expected to recur...
...career was long. Not many Englishmen of his day lived to push 80. Born in 1573, he grew up in Elizabethan England, collaborated on masques with Ben Jonson and probably knew Shakespeare. He lived on into the time of Cromwell and died in 1652. He cannot have been wholly sorry to leave a world that had killed his King and friend, Charles...