Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thornburgh also plans to push two other themesat the K-School that draw on his past experiencesin electoral politics. As the governor ofPennsylvania for eight years, Thornburgh has spentmuch of his political life at the state level,which he feels has been neglected by academics andyoung politicians...
Presidents have still managed to push many wide-ranging programs through Congress. But the regular spectacle of legislative deadlock has given life to a venerable critique of American Government that favors some of the mechanisms and party discipline of parliamentary rule. Under such a system, the winning party's leader becomes Prime Minister and thus almost always commands a majority in Parliament to support his programs. Recently a five-year-old citizens' group called the Committee on the Constitutional System, headed by Washington Lawyer Lloyd Cutler, former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas...
Education: In Topeka, the city of the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 school- desegregation ruling, the struggle to achieve racial balance goes on. Native Americans: Excluded from the Constitution, Indians are still adrift in their own land. Sexes: Supporters again push the era, while women's rights gain legal ground...
...routinely ripped his muscles and powdered his bones. Of all the world's Little League parents, tennis may produce the most virulent specimens, and Graf is considered the reigning scourge by officials and journalists alike, but not by his daughter. Without too much vanity, she says, "You can push a good player to become better, but it is not possible to push a great player to do anything. When I'm on the court, I don't play for my father. I'm responsible for myself...
...stay awake. Says Kennedy: "It was all I could do to get up to go to the bathroom." He was not alone. In the nearby Lake Tahoe area, about 150 others reported similar complaints. Two years later Kennedy has yet to return to work. Says he: "If you push yourself...