Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September 1980 in an attempt to overthrow the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which seemed quite vulnerable at the time, has belatedly realized that it can neither win nor afford the conflict. By threatening to destroy Iranian installations, including the Kharg Island oil terminal, Iraq hopes to push other gulf nations and oil-dependent Western countries into pressing Iran to negotiate a peace agreement...
Cooperman maintains that investment managers "move between greed and fear." Until recently, he said, "greed had outdistanced fear." Reason: "I think people believed that interest rates were going to decline." But then President Reagan's budget convinced investors that deficits will remain huge and help push the cost of borrowing higher. To frightened stock-fund managers, that signaled not only slower economic growth but, more important to them, brisker competition from the markets for bonds and other interest-paying investments...
...irresistible. Bubbly, round-faced Debbie Armstrong broke into a big, can't-hold-it-back grin as the gold medal was hung around her neck. After her second run in the G.S., she had stood waiting for Christin Cooper's time to confirm her gold or push her into second. As she realized that Cooper had just failed to beat her, she turned her head away, and her marvelously readable face registered sublime relief and joy for herself, and pain and sorrow for Cooper. The two stood together, hugging and exclaiming and making faces, until last year...
...contenders came onscreen, ABC no doubt would recoup. But the network last month agreed to pay a staggering $309 million to broadcast the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, Alta., vs. $91.5 million for the Sarajevo rights. That means expanding coverage or more than tripling advertising prices. The shaky push-off in Sarajevo may have been a cautionary indication that after the repeatedly profitable thrill of victory, one day there might come the agony of defeat...
Well they can hold the meat grinder of life up to my face and push me through...