Word: pushed
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...anything, Savimbi seems to be attempting to expand his diamond operations. This fall he launched a violent push into the diamond-rich northern Cuango Valley that has forced the state mining company to withdraw most of its staff. In recent weeks the Angolan army has claimed successful attacks against UNITA--most notably a powerful strike that destroyed Savimbi's military headquarters at Bailundo. UNITA's attack on the Cuango diamond holdings is seen as a retaliation and a bold attempt to re-establish control over the area that produces Angola's most valuable precious stones...
...criticisms have begun: That scientists were lulled by the easy success of the Pathfinder mission into launching a much less adaptable probe that needed everything to go just right in order to succeed. But the agency isn't conceding anything yet. "When we started, we said we'd push the boundaries and we'd lose some," NASA administrator Dan Goldin said late Friday night, "but we haven't lost this...
...directly relates to the sweatshop campaign, because the WTO doesn't take workers into account, with the general tendency to push the global economy to the lowest common denominator," said PSLM member Aron R. Fischer...
...imbroglio over teacher testing is one part of the larger push for educational reform by testing...
According to Mary E. Curtis, who directs the Center for Special Education at Lesley College, Chall would push teachers to give students books that were beyond their reading level, in order to further their knowledge...