Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Going to professional school was just big," she says. "There was this incredible push to take advantage of that--somehow going to law school seemed [to mean] you could be more of an activist...
...serving several universities, and has hinted at the possibility of hiring independently the accounting firm Price-Waterhouse-Coopers (PWC), also in a monitoring capacity. In recent weeks, SAS has registered its disapproval of both the FLA and PWC because of their ties to corporate interests. The activists continue to push for a more acceptable monitoring plan and the establishment of a formal student-faculty committee that will shape the University's anti-sweatshop policy. Their diligence has ensured that the issue will not be forgotten...
...shift that Jiang must have had in mind was his firm push to get the P.L.A. out of business. For more than a decade, P.L.A. generals have been fighting to make money, not war. At one point, the military controlled nearly 20,000 companies employing more than 16 million people. Top P.L.A. brass, often ditching combat boots for tasseled loafers, were common sights at properties that included hotels, telecommunications services, pharmaceutical concerns and even airlines. Less public was the fact that some of the nation's vital naval and air bases had become smuggling hubs for everything from cigarettes...
...championship] ring and so close to understanding the faults that went wrong, it kind of makes you hungry, and it kind of makes you go over the edge," says Miller. "The window of opportunity is closing on this aging team, and everyone wants to give their one big final push...
...sedative before an operation helps minimize the anxiety later on. That seems only logical, and yet less than 20% of children in parts of the U.S. are given a sedative--a calming drug that is distinct from anesthesia--before surgery, in contrast to 75% of adults. The push to change the way youngsters are prepped got a big boost this spring when Dr. Zeev Kain of Yale reported that in the first week after an operation, children given the liquid form of midazolam (the most commonly used preoperative sedative) experience 25% to 50% fewer nightmares and other disturbances than those...