Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oprah Winfrey's irresistible empathy. There is influence within a creative field. Hence the architect Frank Gehry and the female-rocker-as-open-wound-feminist Courtney Love. And there is proximity to power, at least when it is enjoyed by people with ideas and issues they know how to push. It's largely by this means that Al Gore, who is supposed to be in a no-influence job, isn't. (Sorry, Bill--you're merely powerful...
...nervous. "We need an 80% Israeli-Arab participation rate," he says heatedly ("we" refers to the Peres effort, and Shaath uses the word throughout the evening). To reach that goal the Palestinian Authority had urged Arab clerics and other trusted pro-Peres Palestinians to go door to door to push Arab Israelis to the polls. After a last-minute surge, 79% of them did vote, and more than 94% supported Peres. "Remember," Shaath says, smiling, "we don't interfere. But after this, you can't say that Israel's Arabs haven't done their part for Peres...
PUCC member Eric D. Albert '98 says that the council's special relationship with the administration and clout with the campus media place it in an ideal position to push for social change...
...comment on the role of radical student actions in struggles such as the ongoing one here for comparative race and ethnic studies," the students wrote. "Unfortunately, the vast preponderance of efforts for comparative race and ethnic studies we know of at peer institutions...have required such actions to push their respective administrations to make funds available...
...Neil is a quiet, inside guy," Green says. "But after he articulates his vision, he doesn't push it through to completion...