Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commission decided not to push for full landmark status for Grendel's and Tweeter Etc. Instead, it agreed to have certain "preservation restrictions" placed on the property. These restrictions give the city about the same level of control over changes to the exterior of the building, and give the developer special tax breaks as an incentive for agreeing to the restrictions...
...been collecting ideas for months, polling them and vetting them. We announced some on a daily basis and put some in a piggy bank to save for the convention speech. The bureaucracy opposed a lot of them, but [presidential aides] Bruce Reed, Gene Sperling and Rahm Emanuel helped push most through...
...leakage is greatest during geomagnetic storms, which happen when the sun turbocharges the solar wind by spewing out giant blobs of plasma. Ejected at extremely high speeds, they push particles through the magnetosphere with an unusual amount of oomph. During solar minimum, the biggest blobs come from openings in the sun's magnetic field called coronal holes. "Gas spews out of these holes," explains University of Colorado space physicist Daniel Baker, "like water from a fire hose's nozzle." If the nozzle is aimed toward earth, the consequences can be dramatic. Plasma from coronal holes may well have triggered...
...actually proposed a lot," says Clinton aide Rahm Emanuel. "The Republicans gutted our budget requests." That's true now, but the Democratic Congress cut similarly before the G.O.P. took control, and Clinton, who uses the bully pulpit better than anyone, has mounted it mostly to push other causes...
...market of huge size (150 million people) and scope, erasing the 10-year head start Pepsi enjoyed as the Official Party Cola. Coke opens its 12th plant there this week, staffed by locals trained in Coke's bottling university in Moscow. It's all part of Coke's relentless push across the continents. "The conclusion is obvious," says Goizueta with his typical detachment. "Our system has terrific momentum...