Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they set their machines to this magic number and anyone who dares to push the envelope of human potential is not celebrated but forced off the track...
...Atlanta's moments now come with shadows. The Olympic Extra newspaper last week had to push aside photos of the torch for headlines involving the FBI. The 63 TV screens in the workroom of the main press center were full of pictures of debris. The very images of triumphal youth and arriving planes that Atlanta had been hoping to send out, like the inflated Gumby and two-story beer can downtown, seemed beside the point, almost tactless...
Paltrow is an unusual star for the grunge generation: cheerier attitude, shorter rap sheet. Her parents made sure of that. Says Danner: "I worked with many child actors who unfortunately didn't have childhoods. So the last thing we wanted to do was push our children into acting. We felt that if Gwyneth had talent and wanted a career, eventually it would find her and she would find it." So Gwyneth and her younger sister and brother grew up relatively normally, in Los Angeles and, from the time Gwyneth was 11, in Manhattan, where she attended the exclusive Spence School...
...newest associations are often parochial, nimby-style protest groups. But even in the sepia-tinted past, many associations were formed in reaction to perceived injustice--we've just forgotten the original provocation. The precursor of the PTA, the National Congress of Mothers, was formed in part to help push through laws for women's pensions. The American Legion lobbied for the G.I. Bill. "Organized civil society in the United States has never flourished apart from active government," Skocpol has written...
...forecast. Dole's advisers think a promise of faster acceleration, to be achieved largely by tax cuts, may be just the thing to bring the President down. Clinton boasts that he has already achieved robust growth--10 million new jobs since his Inauguration--and his advisers promise to push it beyond 2.5% in future years...