Word: pushes
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...There is a push by the [Cambridge] City Council and the community of Cambridge to have the police rigorously enforce bike laws," said Police Sgt. Paul Sugrue...
...first initiative which the council should now undertake is to reduce the number of council representatives so as to prevent the humiliating turnout (or lack thereof) for council seats next election. The second front the council must push forward on is the metamorphosis of the Core from a defined curriculum to distribution requirements. Finally, the council must secure student access to privacy for computer accounts and to free HIV tests--two issues which are now being debated in committee. Stop the nonsense and get on with student business...
Elsewhere in the Ancient Eight, Penn (5-5-1, 3-2-0) beat Lafayette 3-2 and shut out Brown 3-0, making a late push for the top of the standings. For the second consecutive week, a Quaker freshman secured Ivy League Rookie of the Week distinction--goalie Michael O'Connor made seven saves against the Bears (6-3-3, 0-2-2), en route to his third shutout of the year...
Dole's advisers insist that their California strategy is not a concession to defeat but a smartly calculated best shot at a come-from-behind win. If nothing else, they say, it will keep alive national media attention to Dole, something that a big push in less glittery Indiana wouldn't do. And that spotlight, Dole's advisers hope, could convince voters generally that Dole is not yesterday's news. "It energizes your base in other places when you see Bob Dole fighting for California," says Steve Merksamer, who was statewide head of the Bush campaign...
...which voted to ban all three practices in 1992. Nuisance-bear reports are up, but that is blamed largely on the growth of the human population and weather conditions, especially drought. Last year was Colorado's best bear-killing season since 1989. All the more reason, say advocates, to push for reforms. "If we all want to be hunting in 40 years," warns Fritchman, "we'd better do away with practices that are now viewed as repugnant...