Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Comparing the words "Black" and"African-American," she described "Black" as"unified," "empowering," an "umbrella" which didnot push out "friends in Africa...
...Party. White working males strayed Republican in record numbers last year; only 38% voted for Democratic candidates. The President himself, say the Republicans, is equally at risk. G.O.P. focus groups report that even many Democrats are still upset by two indicators of the President's liberal leanings: his early push to have the military accept gay soldiers, and his support for a health-care-reform program widely viewed as seeking to burden middle-class citizens in order to cover the uninsured...
...inspired. "I didn't make the strong push to run until I was booed in Iowa," says the Pennsylvania Senator. He was convinced by that rebuke that the social extremism that had so disturbed him during the 1992 G.O.P. convention had taken control of the party. His candidacy would offer an alternative. "America needs to be governed from the center," he says. Specter offers a mix of fiscal conservatism and social libertarianism. He is the party's lone pro-choice candidate and speaks out against government's imposing religious values. Opponents claim that by calling for the removal...
...collapse, he boasted to friends that he had been promised a $2 million bonus for the work, in addition to his $350,000 salary, company-financed apartment and limitless travel budget. In Singapore he developed a following. Says one trader: "When all the charts said sell, he would push the market even higher and the locals would go with him." His immediate boss in Singapore was so enamored of Leeson's success that the young man operated virtually without supervision-even though other traders were warning SIMEX authorities that Leeson was a "gunslinger" who should be watched carefully. Singapore traders...
...legislator allegedly told associates that his ambitions to become a state governor had been thwarted by Ruiz Massieu. Munoz Rocha appeared to belong to a group of P.R.I. hacks known as the ``dinosaurs,'' old-timers wedded to the party's authoritarian ways whose power was threatened by Salinas' push for economic and political reforms--a push that both Colosio and Ruiz Massieu had committed themselves to advancing...