Word: pushed
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After I had lunch with some Playboy execs in the dining room, where the waiter was summoned by the push of a button on the table, Hef joined us. He was wearing the smoking jacket and silk pajamas. He looked extraordinarily young for 72, especially his wrinkle-free hands, which made me worry that he had struck some deal with the devil. Then I realized that if he had, he cut the best deal ever...
Julius Miller, a former Manhattan Borough President, was mentioned in passing last week because Mayor Rudolph Giuliani--living proof that not all American boys absorbed Joe DiMaggio's example of doing whatever you do with grace and dignity--took the occasion of Joltin' Joe's death to push the idea of naming the West Side Highway the Joe DiMaggio Highway, and Governor George Pataki resisted that in favor of a freeway in the Bronx. The agendas reflected in the argument were theirs, of course, rather than DiMaggio's; Pataki wants the Bronx Bombers to stay where they are, and Giuliani...
Additionally, the town-gown relationship, which cycles from bad to tolerable and back to bad, would be given a push in the right direction if Harvard were to do a purely generous deed and be seen to be doing so. As David A. Zewinski '76, associate director for physical resources and planning for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said, "Given how much this development has been a lightning rod for community activists, [buying the site] does a lot for Harvard as a white knight...
...Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson has repeatedly called for "a real push for effective partnerships between men and women"--but there are few concrete plans to extend that partnership to all of Radcliffe's undergraduate ventures...
...bipartisan push for a national missile defense system will not lay to rest U.S. concerns over attacks by rogue states such as North Korea and Iran. "If I'm a bad guy, would I attack the U.S. with the only weapon that has a return address on it?" asks TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Even if [the missile defense system] is perfect and it works, then the bad guy, if he's serious, will just come at you in another way. This only takes care of a small part of the problem...