Word: pushed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...featured a tough law-and-order stance, talk of national identity, Christian roots and new curbs on immigration and welfare. It worked: no right-wing presidential candidate has fared as well in the first round since 1974. The presidency isn't won yet, however. Though Sarkozy enters the frantic push toward the runoff as the favorite, he must now make a turn to the center, which may prove to be treacherous territory. Bayrou's surprisingly strong showing means he has replaced Le Pen as the nexus of French discontents, but in defeat Bayrou has given his voters no explicit guidance...
Bivens' next controversial move was to push for heftier service fees at LPGA events. She upped the price to tournament owners sevenfold, charging them as much as $100,000 across a three-year period instead of the $15,000 they had been paying. She reasoned that the LPGA had substantially increased its value by offering better service and exposure. Besides, tournament fees had not increased in 10 years. The dispute ended with only two tournaments dropping off the LPGA roster--in part because of scheduling conflicts--and new ones quickly filled the void. "It's a difficult job to please...
Lavarnway bumped his average to a league-leading .462 and had four RBI—including a two-run bomb off junior Max Warren—to push his Ivy-best total...
Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 took a bold step in his push for a revised academic calendar yesterday, demanding an audience with the University’s top governing board at its next scheduled meeting on April 30. Petersen’s letter to the members of the Harvard Corporation, which comprises Interim President Derek C. Bok and six Fellows, comes after the UC’s staging of a student referendum on calendar change. “As the FAS community considers the [calendar] proposal in the weeks and days ahead, the Corporation must...
Harvard scientists called for more attention to controlling malaria at a high-profile symposium yesterday that signalled a push to use genetic technology to treat diseases in the developing world. “Genetics has not made the contribution to infectious diseases it should have,” said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome Project and director of the Broad Institute, a joint venture between Harvard and MIT that specializes in genomics. Lander said genetic applications to medicine have largely focused on “first-world diseases,” such as cancer. The conference...