Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most recent samplings can be accounted for by the standard margin for error in opinion surveys (3 points), by differences in polling techniques and by the fact that Gallup and Harris polled after the second debate, in which Carter did well. Also, Yankelovich does not try to push those who seem genuinely undecided into saying how they are leaning, while Gallup and Harris sometimes do. Thus the percentage of undecided in Yankelovich polls is generally larger. On the other hand, both Gallup and Harris try to weed out those who indicate that they are unlikely to vote...
...Vise group, as a result, is using the arrests as its trump card is agitating for the settlement of the dispute. Already, the group has organized a 300-student demonstration cum administration building occupation to push for building general amnesty for those arrested, and further plans to stage demonstrations on behalf of the library workers and the arrested students during Brown's upcoming freshman parents' weekend...
...Suddenly the lights blaze brighter; people whisper that she has arrived; the music starts up and, from around the corner, the cheering begins. Is this the return of some long lost queen? But isn't there something too familiar in all those flash bulbs popping? As hundreds of hands push paper and pen toward her our doubts disappear. It is another opening night in Hollywood...
...promises to be "another wildly interesting experiment in arctic engineering." It could add to the project's cost, which has already soared from an early estimate of $900 million in the late 1960s to $7.7 billion today. Some officials reckon that the hassle over the welds will help push the final bill to $8.4 billion...
...salvation. The bishops of North Africa, led by St. Augustine, insisted that human beings could do nothing without divine help. Pelagius, a theologian from foggy Britain come south to preach reform in Rome, believed that man is born spiritually free. God's grace may give him a push, but essentially he can find his own way to heaven. Augustine's writings were crucial in labeling Pelagius a heretic. Still, the bishops needed some temporal muscle to run the heretics into exile. Accordingly, these churchmen who believed in the deep corruptibility of man sent some 80 fine Numidian stallions...