Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eisert said that the council made a consciousdecision to advertise later in the week. "I thinkit best to give a big push right before theevent," he said...
While the CRR eventually handed down relativelylenient sentences to the 25 students being chargedfor participation in two separate divestmentprotests, undergraduates continued to boycott thebody and push for disciplinary from. The 1985hearings were the beginning of the end for theCRR...
...northern slice of Chad. The expectation is that the retreating troops will make the arduous 500-mile desert trek north to a Libyan base in the Aozou Strip, a 50-mile-wide, mineral-rich area that has been in dispute since World War II. If Habre decides not to push his fight with Gaddafi into the Aozou Strip, Libyans may push Gaddafi to leave the rest of Chad to Habre. But predictions involving the erratic Gaddafi are always risky. Last week, for instance, he threatened to join the Warsaw Pact. The Kremlin was so taken aback by Gaddafi's suggestion...
...first call on his invention, summoning his assistant from an office down the hall with the words "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Today Bell might simply look at his telephone and say, "Call Watson." A torrent of new technology is turning the plain old telephone and its push-button heirs into sophisticated electronic instruments that are part phone and part computer. They can remember frequently used numbers, block out unwanted calls and listen to voice commands. Once available only to business customers, these "smart" telephone features are now being offered to residential customers...
...torrent of technology is turning the plain old telephone and its push- + button heirs into sophisticated electronic instruments. Among other things, they block out unwanted calls and listen to voice commands. -- Fujitsu drops its bid for Fairchild. -- Wall Street' s spreading scandal fells Stock Trader Boyd Jefferies. -- Independent filmmakers steal the scene in Hollywood...