Word: pushed
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...continued to lag, and various members of the faculty implied-or said outright-that he would never amount to anything. The athletic coaches disagreed: the following year Bud won letters in track and football, finished first in the school decathalon, and set a record by doing one thousand straight push-ups. He might have done more, but a teacher, worried that the youth would strain his heart, ordered him to stop...
...Several students, including Tian and Samra, continue to push for stronger conflict of interest policies, especially those at Harvard’s 15 affiliated hospitals, where third- and fourth-year students start their clinical education...
...early September, the first-year Harvard Medical School students in a biochemistry class expected to learn about protein degradation. Instead, they came out of lecture ready to push for more comprehensive conflict of interest policies...
...touched on an important issue—up until then, the Medical School did not have a codified conflict of interest policy for the classroom. As several Medical School professors have recently come under fire for failure to disclose conflicts of interest, first-year students banded together to push for stronger disclosure policies at the school...
...Sarkozy needs to go and speak to Bush in order to send a message to Obama," says French political analyst Alain Duhamel. "What that will say is Sarkozy and Europe are mobilized and determined to regulate markets collectively, and that Obama is going to have to deal with that push from his foreign allies - especially if the situation remains this dire through Obama's Inauguration...