Word: pushed
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...legal straightjacket took some of the heat off the Governor, there was plenty else to answer for. A day before his appearance in front of the committee, the Bank of England announced plans to pump $20 billion into the money markets, to help thaw the freeze on liquidity and push down the bloated rate banks are charging to lend one another cash. It also broadened the kind of collateral those banks could put up in return for accessing the central bank funds. In itself, that wasn't controversial - the European Central Bank and U.S. Federal Reserve have both pumped cheap...
Hall: But you always push the fashion quotient, so you educate the customer, so you educate the stores...
...Jersey, admittedly fashion obsessed. She studied merchandising in New York City and soon became a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's, no doubt looking as chic as she does on this day in her Michon Schur jacket. "I love to dress for work. I love to push the envelope," says Hall, who when Marni began to pique fashion interest had an impromptu try-on clinic of the line with many of the associates. "Just to keep us all continually moving forward," she explains...
...education, Gross also was not the advocate for student life that many hoped he would become. While the Dean’s Fund for Undergraduate Life was used to bankroll many important student initiatives such as the Lamont Café and the Cambridge Queen’s Head, the push for and oversight of many of these projects came from others in the administration. While the primary obstacle doubtlessly was the difficulty of accessing the necessary funds, Gross could have taken a more active role as an advocate for these projects, rather than sometimes being seen as the roadblock...
...order to push the frontiers of science ahead, you have to take some risks—to push the envelope in terms of creativity into areas where there hasn’t been a lot of research done,” Jensen said...