Word: pushes
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...first, the committee voted to reduce the maximum student blocking group size from 20 to 16. We support this new compromise to the extent that it heads off the masters' continuing push for randomization. But we question whether it will truly increase house diversity...
...must question then whether the new limit will really slow the push by randomization supporters, or is this only an initial step in the gradual erosion of student choice...
More pragmatically, a continuing military debacle in the northern Caucasus might not only push the core area of Russia back into a police state but also trigger additional declarations of independence throughout the ethnically and culturally varied Russian Federation. That could plunge the vast area stretching from the Arctic Ocean south to the Black Sea and from the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad clear across Eurasia to the North Pacific into chaos or civil war. At the most extreme, some Western analysts are whispering again a phrase last heard in 1991, when the Soviet Union was breaking up: "Yugoslavia with nukes...
...expectation is that they will think this plan is acceptable and better," Label said. "But we still think that they will push for randomization...
...openly criticized the Yeltsin government, saying the military offensive in Chechnya violated the 1975 Helsinki accord and agreements reached last year by the 52-nation Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe. In the Senate, new Foreign Relations Committee chairman Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina warned he would push to end U.S. aid to Russia if Yeltsin "can't control his people -- in terms of killing women, children and other innocent people...