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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major chunk of what you are asking for, the tendency is to say 'Good, at least they agreed in principle,'" Harrison says. "The other thing is that it goes 50, 60, 70 percent of where you want it to go, but in the right atmosphere you might want to push...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Afro-American Studies: A Legacy of Black Student Activism | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

...student strike certainly seemed to offer the right atmosphere for such a push...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Afro-American Studies: A Legacy of Black Student Activism | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

...What we were trying to say is that in a university community we're not using guns, we're not using knives, we're not going to push people around or anything else," he says. "You have to sit down and discuss and reason with them. That was the only issue...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: 'And Don't Think Young People Can't Be Evil' | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Many people did not think so. In Push Comes To Shove: The Escalation of Student Protest, Steven J. Kelman '70 wrote that the paper "glorified the unthinking machine," pushing along the controversy while pretending to report objectively...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Black and White And Red All Over | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Logic, unfortunately, does not always dictate strategic decisions. Irrational as the fear of a Soviet surprise attack may be, psychological and political reasons alone may push the the U.S. into proceeding with a new mobile missile. As one congressional expert put it, "You can't debate survivability for a decade and then not do anything." It is unlikely that the Senate would ratify a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that allowed the Soviets mobile missiles unless the U.S. first decided to acquire a comparable system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Choice of Arms | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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