Word: pushes
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West is likewise attempting to push a distinctly socialist agenda. He sees a solution to the Black-Jewish separation in some version of a fundamentalist common religion that combines the Jewish and Christian faiths. In Jews and Blacks, he says to Lerner: "Both of our traditions place a fundamental stress on what I call non-market values...I'm calling for a dialogue about the relative failure or success of the U.S. experiment in democracy...
...recently displayed ambition and avarice of his own. Amis got an advance of nearly $800,000 for "The Information," and encountered some serious jealousy in British publishing circles. As for the book itself, Sheppard says Amis has reached his limits in his quest to juggle words and push satire further than anyone else, and it's beginning to show...
Things do not bode well as Tommy prepares to take the stage. He tells his writer (William Hootkins) that he is, "willing to take risks, push the edge...because I only have two weeks to live." Just after his melodramatic girlfriend, Jenny (Ruta Lee), breaks up with him backstage, his father takes the stage and steals two of his best jokes. No wonder Tommy needs a vacation...
...Republicans talk about family values, but [welfare rules] push them out of the picture," she said...
...would bar illegal immigrants from receivingtaxpayer-paid social services, part of a larger movement to takeCalifornia's Proposition 187beyond thatstate's borders. Similar fights are underway in Texas, Arizona and Colorado. In Orlando, a group called Save Our State today said its effort is part of a campaign to push the issue onto the national agenda by 1996. ButTIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothsays Florida will be a hard political sell, in part becauseGov. Lawton Chiles, a Prop 187 opponent, "feels strongly that you shouldn't turn people away from hospitals or children from classrooms...