Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked to help investigate the case. He and others found Bello and Bradley, each of whom said he had lied in his identification. Carter wrote a hard, seething book, The Sixteenth Round (Viking, $11.95), about his life before and in prison. Soon Dylan, Ali and other celebrities joined the push to free Carter (TIME, Dec. 22). In the end, though, it was a legal misstep that led to last week's victory...
Ironically, the perfectionist who developed the cuisine minceur still prefers to cook with the butter, cream, eggs and flour that he virtually outlaws. "Minceur is much more difficult," admits Guérard. "It demands great care and forces you to push your ideas. In five years, when the minceur is fully developed, it will be easier. But now I still prefer to forget the calories and cook gourmand." In fact, following publication of his minceur book, Guérard will issue one on gourmand cooking. But his longer-range goal is to "marry" the two cuisines-by which he means...
...make-up of Harvard University determines the underlying push of these fundraising efforts. Not only are few programs free from the financial squeeze, but Peterson is now beginning to claim that if Harvard cannot "get off the plateau" and significantly increase its sources of funding, then the "golden era of Harvard College when the University could always afford to offer substantial scholarships could be nearing its end." "Harvard is the place of pre-eminent excellence," Peterson believes, and it is the fundraising done on a year by year basis that makes the University go. Without momentum, if we just...
...School, realized an increasing number of Law School students were taking jobs in government without a strong public policy background. After some discussion with John Dunlop, dean of the Faculty at the time, and Donald K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, Bok decided to push for a broad ranging public policy program at Harvard that would train this new breed of student for careers in public service...
...Cities like Cambridge--which is interested primarily in maintaining rent control within its boundaries and secondly in keeping the law at the state level--have come up with their own proposals for maintaining an intramural brand of rent control. Some tenant groups lined up with the city to push for local control; others, seeing what they think are dire effects of making rent control a piece-meal local affair, have turned to non-legislative action...