Word: pushed
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...drinking your own urine - you talk in the book about people who hallucinate while running or become disoriented and exhausted. You say running is really easy, but obviously ultra-running is an extreme sport. It's very hard, and people go through a lot. Why do you think people push themselves that hard? A really smart scientist, Dr. Dennis Bramble at the University of Utah, said to me, "Recreation has its reasons." It's an instinct we have inside of us. We push ourselves that far because we're hard-wired to want to remind ourselves that...
...upshot: political campaigns that seemed utterly unconcerned with substantive issues - of which there are many. How will India maneuver its foreign policy amid the tempestuous politics of its neighbors? How will it secure the safety of its citizens from extremists and insurgents? How will it push economic growth and liberalization forward without triggering massive unemployment or environmental calamity? Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who begins a second term, may well have answers to those questions but he did not reveal them during the campaign. Columnist Anand Giridharadas, writing for the New York Times, summed up the Indian vote...
...regions - marked by boomtowns such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Tianjin as well as their hinterlands - have grown much faster than the country's interior provinces, which have always been poorer. For years the central government has tried various policies to lift western China, without much result. The infrastructure push gives Beijing another chance to address divisive and potentially explosive wealth gaps that have grown between east and west, rich and poor...
Despite the rough patch that Harvard hit midseason with a five-game losing streak, the Crimson players held their heads up and continued to push through until the last minutes of their season...
...squad was led throughout this season by senior skipper Megan Watson, who ended her stellar Harvard career with a selection to the ICSA Women’s All-America team. “[Watson] was the A-boat skipper for three years and constantly worked to push the team to achieve its best,” junior co-captain Liz Powers said. “We were very happy her consistent effort every weekend was recognized by her earning All-American status, which means she is among the top eight skippers in the country.” Watson and Powers...