Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that was the prelude to Monday, a day of Egyptian heat and heavy humidity, with temperatures reaching 100 degrees. The weather made a perfect start for Hell Week, the days of forced marching, push-ups and verbal badgering that introduces new cadets to their life as "knobs"-campus slang for the shave-headed plebes. Faulkner had already created resentment by resisting the requirement to shave her head. The school ultimately allowed an off-the-shoulder cut, similar to the regulation accepted for women at the service academies. But in the end, that accommodation was far from what she needed...
...Citadel thinks it can solve the problem through Shannon's leaving, they're dead wrong." Don't tell that yet to the cadets. At the first word that Faulkner was going, many of them cheered, honked car horns and took to a checkerboard-patterned quadrangle to perform triumphant push-ups. Maybe it was heat of all kinds that knocked Faulkner out of the Citadel last week. What no one agrees upon is just what kind of heat mattered most...
...that a previously unknown species of hominid strode upright at least 4 million years ago. Their find, reported in last week's Nature, consists of complete upper and lower jaws, teeth from several individuals, a piece of skull, arm bones and a leg bone. Taken together, the fossils push the emergence of two-legged walking, or bipedalism, 500,000 years earlier than any other data had indicated. Says Walker: "This gets close to the hypothesized time of splitting of the ape and human lineages...
...congressman's troubles aren't over yet. Although House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today he would not push for Reynolds' resignation, Reynolds still faces investigation by the House ethics commission, which could recommend expulsion. Reynolds also faces a federal probe into allegations that he diverted campaign funds toward personal...
...track," says economics correspondent Adam Zagorin. The Federal Reserve decided to leave the key federal funds rate unchanged at 5.75 percent, despite analysts' expectations this summer that a rate cut in July (the first in three years) might herald a succession of measures to stimulate the economy. Zagorin saysGreenspanmay push for further rate cuts in the fall, "but with a healthy 2.5 growth rate expected for the remainder of the year, he's currently not under much pressure...