Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the convincing win against Columbia two weeks ago, the Harvard men's soccer team has suffered a number of injuries to key players and has been inconsistent in its intensity. It seemed as if the team was in need of an emotional boost to push them through the middle of their schedule...
...preoccupied with my career than others were," he now says. "I always had some job offers," even if they "weren't particularly great ones." He cheerfully admits he was no one's first choice for Get Shorty and that when the script was submitted to him, "it didn't push me over the edge." He changed his mind after talking with Pulp Fiction's writer-director, Quentin Tarantino, who has become his unofficial adviser. "He said, 'Look man, what's going on here? This is the one you say yes to.'" This he finally did after insisting that much...
...whole, the concentration of politicians on "women as mothers" while ignoring "men as fathers" further punishes women. Since they are the most easily identified parent and often the more committed, it leaves men with little incentive to acknowledge paternity or pay their fair share and may even push them farther from their children. Why don't we cap the number of children a man can have? KATHERINE WOODS-ELIOT Portland, Oregon Via E-mail...
...give students a little extra push to give one last edit when they're writing their final draft," Harvey said...
Later this year two George Mason University professors will release the largest study ever conducted on bilingual education, comparing the performance of 42,000 non-English-speaking students over 13 years. Although states such as Massachusetts and Illinois now push students out of bilingual classes within three years, the researchers found that children who had six years of bilingual education in well-designed programs performed far better on standardized English tests in 11th grade. Even with bilingual classroom aides and esl training, children who are plunged into an English environment before they are fluent "are just left...