Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this "mental edge," he explains, that helped push him ahead of other sports broadcasters who relied on industry connections or their past athletic achievements to get jobs...
...added that had Boston and Harvard not reached an agreement, the city would have continued to push. "It was really just getting over the hurdle of why Harvard should pay," Rakow said...
...magazines and newspapers) and an acute ear for a star's persona, vocal rhythms and insecurities. Vilanch will be backstage with Raquel Welch before she gives a speech he wrote, and in the wings on Oscar night to cue Crystal's on-the-spot jokes about Jack Palance push...
...Xerox copy of the Democratic party," confirmed on Monday morning?s "Today" show that he is thinking of defecting from the GOP and seeking the Reform party?s nomination for president. Not that Buchanan should assume the welcome wagon will be wheeled out for him. If he does push to be the nominee of the party founded by Ross Perot ? he said he would make the "agonizing" decision in early October ? his views on such issues as abortion may render him untouchable among party power brokers like Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, who has already voiced his concern over Buchanan...
...suggests flaws as well as attributes. The "crude individualism" of his youth has translated into a go-it-alone political style that has produced little legislation. And when McCain waffles--appearing to back down on his staunch pro-life position, for example, by suggesting recently that he would not push for the repeal of Roe v. Wade--it seems worse than typical polspeak. McCain's biography makes a compelling read, but it may not guarantee presidential greatness...