Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future of baseball rests in the hands of a few powerful men. If the owners of baseball's few profitable franchises push for a salary cap, the small market teams can be saved. But, if men such as George Steinbrenner continue to revel in their ability to throw millions at top players of teams who can't afford to pay them, then salaries will continue to spiral upward and small market teams will be forced out. Someone should tell Mr. Steinbrenner and his cronies that assembling an invincible team is no fun when there is no one left to play...
...endorse David J. Malan '98 for council president, who promises to push the council in the direction of relevance. He has a very clear notion for the council, including an internal structure and methods for improving its image on campus...
...mile or so away in front of a panel with one or two joysticks or a steering wheel and a small TV screen, manipulating the vehicle like someone playing a video game. Light vehicles carry gear that pinpoints the location of the mines for later destruction. Alternatively, tanks push heavy rollers or a metal contraption called a flail that can destroy mines directly. If a big mine blows up the vehicle instead...well, no human is hurt...
Production will grow more slowly, says Zimmerman, in part because "we're running out of labor." The shortage will also push up wages. Weinberg hopes that much of the increase can be offset by higher productivity resulting from the heavy business investment of recent years (business spending on new plant and equipment has been shooting up 18% a year). Nonetheless, prices will be forced up at a slightly faster rate than...
...President has no interest in political suicide; neither does the Vice President, who, despite his concern about the environment, is not expected to attend the conference. They have sent delegates to Kyoto armed with a proposal that is much weaker than the E.U.'s. It would push emissions down to 1990 levels, and no lower, some time between 2008 and 2012. Part of that reduction would come through an international system of emissions trading, by which, say, a power company based in the U.S. could upgrade a plant in China and use reduced emissions there to meet its domestic target...