Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate isn't new, and the sides haven't changed. Prompted by recommendations in a comprehensive faculty report, the house masters have renewed their push for randomizing the housing lottery...
Five years ago, the house masters and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 began the push for randomization, arguing that the old system of ordered choice, where students were assigned housing on the basis of four ranked choices, left the houses too homogeneous...
...ordered choice must be preserved. It satisfies neither side, but it's a reasonable compromise that both have accepted. When two sides compromise, they should stick by the deal unless the situation changes. And it hasn't. If the masters are in earnest in renewing their push for randomization, they are simply being poor sports...
Harvard's win comes after being dissected by New Hampshire on Wednesday in a 5-2 loss. UNH's stock rose with the win, enough to push them into this week's college hockey poll...
...more like Joey Buttafuoco than Michael Douglas, but never mind. Perhaps he was succeeding handsomely at counseling overweight women and should have been promoted instead of being let go for breaking a trivial rule. We are asked to believe that these men's having to listen to jokes about push-up bras or being asked to lift a heavy box makes for a winning case and worldwide media attention, when women have been listening to penis jokes and making coffee for decades. Sure, complaints about failing to be promoted simply because they were men in a women's world...