Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House spin all year, repeated five times daily like a call to prayer, is that the President is going about the people's business, not obsessing about his legal defense. But he doesn't need to pull every lever and push every button in order to control the campaign machine. After two elections and a full year of fire by trial, says a top aide, "we know what he wants, when he wants it, and how he wants...
...Finish like THE REV. WILLIAM SHEALS. Hop right, push left elbow away from body. Flap arms and keep hopping...
...Clinton and Gates are remarkably alike in other ways, particularly in their flaws. Both have almost limitless drive and self-absorption, and a willingness to push the rules to the edge--or past it--to get what they want. When called to account, both have been dismissive of the legal process and have had a strained relationship with the truth. These qualities have landed both men in similar binds: Clinton is waiting to hear if he will be removed from office, Gates is fending off the Justice Department's effort to rein in, or even carve up, Microsoft. Their flaws...
...homework crunch is heard loudest in the country's better middle-class school districts, where parents push their kids hard and demand that teachers deliver enough academic rigor to get students into top secondary schools and colleges. Now there's a blowback: the sheer quantity of nightly homework and the difficulty of the assignments can turn ordinary weeknights into four-hour library-research excursions, leave kids in tears and parents with migraines, and generally transform the placid refuge of home life into a tense war zone. "The atmosphere in the house gets very frustrated," says Lynne O'Callaghan...
...most help, with 56 new INS jobs created. "Many people have lived here for decades," says Hornblower. "And they were content to live here without being naturalized until they felt threatened by laws such as Proposition 187, which affected their health care." She points out, however, that the new push to integrate existing residents into the American mainstream "doesn't change the efforts of the Clinton administration to crack down on illegal immigration." For prospective Americans outside the country's borders, the wait will be much longer...