Word: pushed
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...somewhat two-tiered, with Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell all returning multiple marquee players and looking to push for the top of the standings...
...When Push Came to Shove...
...plays later, senior running back Chris Menick had a chance to save the day for the Crimson. He busted through the line and went down the left sideline. Twelve yards downfield, Brown safety Tony Paquette shoved Menick, who was tiptoeing the sideline, just enough to push him out-of-bounds with nothing but open field in front...
Wampler and her students illustrate the latest math concept in elementary education: kindergarten = first grade. Kindergarten--so fondly remembered by baby boomers for show-and-tell and building blocks--has changed. Standardized curriculum and testing in primary schools are causing what educators call "push-down" academics. The need to perform well on tests filters down, landing on the youngest learners. As a result, kindergartners spend less time on social skills while interacting with one another in the "dress-up corner" or building wood-block skyscrapers. They spend more time sitting still, listening to the teacher and drilling on the basics...
Giving these laws an extra push will be the rise of tropical megacities--huge, densely packed cities in less developed nations. A U.N. study predicts that by the year 2015, there will be 26 extremely big cities on the planet, and 22 of them will be in less developed regions. The megacities will include Bombay (26 million people by 2015), Lagos (24 million), Dhaka (19 million) and Karachi (19 million). By 2030, almost 60% of the world's people will live in urban areas. By then, some megacities could have 30 million or more people. The population of California today...