Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weil adds, "Harvard's training is different, and its research is different from the rest of the world. Harvard considers research to be the documentation of cases, that the way to push knowledge forward is to write cases, not scholarship...
...prime rate stood at 8.5%. But Bush, even though he pledged during the fall campaign to drive inflation down to 2%, insisted two weeks ago that he is not "overly concerned" about the threat of rising prices and cautioned that he "would not like to see" the Fed push interest rates higher. In Tokyo last week, Bush asserted that the Fed might be overreacting to the inflation report. Said he: "I don't think you can make a judgment on one month's figures." But the President added that while he and Greenspan have "got a little difference of interpretation...
...meantime, what is a worried parent to do? Jackson counsels caution but still recommends that children get a steady diet of fresh fruits and vegetables, organically grown if possible. And he warns people not to let their fears push them into food foolishness. "I wouldn't want parents to go back to Big Macs," he says, "because they're concerned about the broccoli...
...subsequent effort to persuade house residents to put large pink triangles in their windows as gestures of solidarity with harassed homosexuals on campus seemed, in context--to many Mather students--highly inappropriate under the circumstances. The tactics used to push pink triangles on reluctant students were as open and empathetic as the Mather House meeting a few days before: if you felt uncomfortable displaying a large pink triangle, you were aiding and abetting the brainless homophobic thugs of the world. Silence, after all, equals death. Is it surprising that Mather has lived up to the dark prophesies that...
...decided we were going to write an honest report," Verba says, "and an honest report is one that takes into account the resistance with which one operates--tries very hard to push against those constraints as much as possible--but doesn't set up false expectations that are going to be violated...