Word: pushed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your research did you find that you are the first person to come up with such a theory? People spontaneously started using "disaster capitalism" to describe what was happening with what they were seeing around them because it was so clear that this disaster was being harnessed to push through a radical vision of totally unrestricted markets. And Bush didn't make too much of a secret of it when he announced that his idea of reconstructing the Gulf Coast was to turn it into a tax-free, free-enterprise zone...
...Western Cattle is counting on the same farmers to help them push their agenda for beef. The private company doesn't breed cows; it buys them, fattens them up on a feedlot and then trucks them off to the slaughterhouse. Today, the half million male calves born every year around Hohhot are mostly sold to blood-serum companies that render the animals' plasma into products such as cosmetics. Timberlake, who is the on-site manager for Western Cattle in China, has been going head to head with serum companies since he arrived six months ago, hitting the dairies and villages...
...bands nowadays are trying their best to recreate Brian Wilson’s genius, but their output almost always comes off as just another Beach Boys tribute. Animal Collective is one of the only bands that takes Wilson’s influence to heart and then expands on it, pushing the conventions of pop music to their outer limits. In large part, that achievement comes because the band never yokes their primal instincts, choosing raw emotive power over restraint in their songs. That’s led to a disparate discography, consisting of eight full-length discs in seven years...
...Last Friday, the Dutch cabinet decided not to hold a referendum on the new Reform Treaty for the European Union (EU). European media outlets criticized the decision as an undemocratic move to push through a decision that would not pass in popular vote. They are probably right. And yet, the Cabinet is acting in the people(s) of Europe’s best interest...
...requested for fiscal 2008. The man who created the $140 billion Medicare prescription drug program is threatening to veto a bill that would grow state children's health care programs by $35 billion. And out of the blue Bush is suddenly talking entitlement reform again, two years after his push to overhaul Social Security died...