Word: pushed
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...Israeli government announced a major initiative to push the nation's drivers toward electric cars on Monday, a move meant to both lessen dependence on foreign oil and address the environmental and health hazards of gas-burning vehicles...
...cataclysmic. The warming of the atmosphere has gotten everybody's attention. I'm speaking to you from Western Massachusetts where the thermometer hit 60 yesterday and was four degrees below zero three days before. Weather is going crazy everywhere. Ice caps are melting, and we're hearing that could push sea levels up. You know the drill...
...make things easy. From babyhood on, it equips us with the tools we'll need for the hardest social role we'll ever play--the role of romantic--and then chooses the moment when we're drunk on the hormones of adolescence and least confident in ourselves to push us on stage to perform. That we go on at all is a mark of our courage. That we learn the part so well is a mark of how much is at stake...
...Thursday, is a major event. As voters get ready to go to the polls on Saturday, the stakes are enormous for most of the candidates still struggling for a foothold in the chaos of the Republican nomination fight. The fight is even more unpredictable because of a rash of push polls that have bombarded the state's residents, whose phones ring constantly with prerecorded attack messages. "The push is on," said Evelyn Wyche, a Columbia Democrat who got a call from someone attacking McCain's record on life issues. "They did not identify themselves," she added...
...Mubarak's main opponent in the 2005 presidential election. "He is saying he supports the presidents and the governments in the Arab countries," says Ghada Jamsheer, a women's rights activist in Bahrain. "This is why people are angry. Why is he not putting pressure on these governments to push for human rights?" The fact that Bush rarely ventured beyond the walls of heavily guarded royal palaces, embassies and hotels, though completely understandable given concerns for his security, nonetheless further prevented him from making much connection with the people whose liberty he says he sincerely seeks...