Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protracted tale about coming out seems dated, that merely reflects White's master plan: he aims at nothing less than a social history of emerging gay consciousness from the suppressed 1950s through the '60s. In the era of AIDS, White's novel is a fiercely remembered plea not to push gays back into the closet...
Last December, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy helped push Congress into passing a provision that seemed to take dead aim at Rupert Murdoch. At the time, Murdoch was benefiting from temporary waivers of a Federal Communications Commission regulation that prohibits a firm from owning a newspaper and a TV station in the same community. The waivers allowed him to continue owning the Herald and WFXT-TV in Boston, and the New York Post and WNYW-TV in Manhattan. But the congressional measure urged by Kennedy forbade the FCC to extend the time period of the waivers that were then in effect...
...Undergraduate Council's party line will push off in Boston Harbor next Saturday night...
...long piece in Vanity Fair some months ago, Gail Sheehy recounted: Jackson's brother's shady dealings, the finagling at Operation PUSH, allegations of womanizing, his misrepresentations concerning the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., his hailing of Castro and embracing of Arafat, and his lack of any background in politics. To conclude the piece, Sheehy suggested that Jackson was too egotistical to be president...
...racist to say that Jackson is not qualified to be President. But it is certainly not racist, just factually correct, to point out that he has never held any elective office. It is also not racist to remember that Jackson's Operation PUSH--an organization which seeks to advance minority businesses--has been the subject of government inquiries and been charged with mismanagement of federal funds. If Jackson has had such problems managing PUSH's budget, how does he plans to handle the federal budget...