Word: pushed
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...scramble to stop their star players and coach from signing lucrative contracts with talent-hungry European teams, South African officials on Wednesday scrapped a long-held commitment to racial quotas for their national sports teams. That plan was one of the cornerstones of President Thabo Mbeki's push to integrate sports in a sports-crazed nation, and help close the huge racial schisms left by decades of apartheid. "Quotas are out," the sports minister Makhenkesi Stofile said in a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday attempting to explain the reversal. "We are not going to decide who must be on the team...
...reportedly invested $20 million in this building, why invest so much in the Japanese market when it is not performing so well? I think when the market is not good is the time when you have to do something, you have to push it and restart in a different way. The young Japanese consumer has a big appetite for fashion. They are more open and free to shop; it is not such an inhibiting activity here anymore. Even if they cannot afford to buy a designer dress, they will buy, for example, a smaller item...
...season. “It’s definitely nice coming in as a sophomore, knowing the systems, the way things are run, the pace of play,” Richter says. “I know what to expect. I know how much I have to drive and push myself to take it to the next level and help this team win games.” Despite lingering doubts around the league about Richter’s strength in the goal, his teammates and coaches believe that he has the tools to bring Harvard...
...there are objections from many differing strands of French politics over Sarkozy's high-profile role in the case - one reminiscent of his successful push last July to secure the freeing of six Bulgarian medics facing capital punishment on trumped-up murder charges in Libya. Though Sarkozy came away from that looking like a hero, allegations swirled in its wake that he'd not only stolen the thunder from nearly completed European Union efforts to secure the Bulgarian's liberty, but had done so by paying millions of dollars in "compensation" to Libya. At around this time France also...
...part, Washington wants to avoid being compelled to intervene between two friends. And, on Sunday, a U.S. diplomatic push led to the release of eight Turkish soldiers held captive by the PKK in Iraq. Iraqi Kurdish leaders said they had played a role in the release...