Word: pushes
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...white, non-Hispanic district that includes Miami Beach. Other Republicans are less comfortable with the possibility that their party might become so identified with the anti-immigration sentiment that it turns off the Hispanic voters the party hopes to attract. Though California's Republican House delegation is likely to push for a national Proposition 187, Gingrich himself is opposed...
...contend with a group of drunken rowdies who caused a near riot at the school that he founded, the University of Virginia. Ever since then, periodic efforts to crack down on excessive alcohol consumption among young scholars have been largely futile. Enforcing strict rules on university turf seemed to push the parties off campus. Raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21 in the 1980s merely triggered a boom in the business of creating fake ID cards...
...public schools might deflect conservative evangelicals from the campaign against the education establishment. Evangelists for school choice don't want the public school system to get better; they want it to get worse, as a prelude to getting out of it and into private schools. To them the push for prayer is like asking the band of the Titanic to strike up Nearer, My God, to Thee...
Yeltsin responded by voicing fear that Europe was about to split again into hostile blocs, this time consisting of everybody else vs. Russia. Expansion of NATO, in his view, would push what many Russians still see as an anti-Moscow alliance right up against the borders of the old Soviet Union. Said Yeltsin: "Europe, not having yet freed itself from the heritage of the cold war, is in danger of plunging into a cold peace. Why sow the seeds of mistrust?" The Russian President also accused Washington of overweening arrogance in playing the role of sole superpower. In his words...
Municipal bond holders around the country had more than the Orange County disaster to worry about. Greenspan's strong hint last week that the Federal Reserve will continue to push up interest rates heightened worries that more governments with overleveraged portfolios heavily based on interest-rate bets could be forced to default. Already this year, derivatives have produced a bitter legacy: such disparate groups as the State of Florida, the University of Minnesota and a Shoshone Indian tribe have reported financial hits from these risky securities. "I think there will be more ((crises)) coming through the pipeline," asserts Dick Larkin...