Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest models -- "combi machines" -- can play both compact and laser discs. These newly available combis will likely heat up the laser market even further. In Japan, where the laser business is now valued at $1.5 billion, the major electronics companies are gearing up for a grand-scale manufacturing push, and Sony will start to sell its laser-disc player in the U.S. this spring...
...quantifying how Lopid dramatically cuts the risk of coronary heart disease. Lacking his own data, Vagelos refused to make similar assertions. By January the two drugs were running about even in sales. Analysts suggest, however, that once Merck has its own study in hand, the company's reputation could push Mevacor back in front, generating more than $1 billion in annual sales...
...Kennedy School is training the CIA to use its intelligence more effectively. Who's to say the CIA won't use this training to push through more operations like the Iran-contra scam? Singer claims that this reasoning is a "redherring." But the salient issue in CIA training is that the CIA often pursues unsavory foreign policy initiatives, like the Iran-contra scam and the overthrow of Allende in Chile in 1973. The CIA is not just another government agency--it deserves extremely close scrutiny...
...world championship in France, they have developed a genuine warmth for each other, built on shared interests, common pressures and gentle mutual needling. When Orser turned 26 in December, Boitano sent a card that read, "You are just like a ripe, vintage wine. Old." Both men know not to push the friendship where it cannot go. "We never talk skating," says Boitano. "The program is taboo...
LaVigne was cut from his position as a pusher on the alternate sled two weeks ago and replaced by Chicago Bears wide receiver Willie Gault. Although the Olympic coaches have said that Gault made the sledding team strictly on the basis of his better push times, LaVigne has contended that he was cut unfairly and was the victim of a "political" maneuver designed to bring the sport badly-needed publicity...