Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radcliffe student Committee for Women Faculty, founded earlier this month, is also hoping to push female faculty hiring to the administration...
Store officials argue it's not their fault that less than half of all eligible students took the trouble to claim their rebates. They can't drag students into the store and push their money at them, they say. If Coop members don't think it's worth their while to claim their rebate, that's their business...
...last night's council meeting, members passed two other resolutions designed to follow through on the council's recent push for "school spirit...
...fairness, you did not invent the idea -- nationalism had become a religion, but you gave it a mighty push, resulting in new maps that were not much more logical than the old ones. The multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire, for instance, was followed by new constructs -- Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia -- containing as many disparate and often hostile peoples. Hence today's tribal conflicts. All too often, a mistreated minority achieves independence and then mistreats other minorities in its midst or tries to "rescue" its brethren who live on the other side of a national frontier. Thus self-determination for one people becomes aggression...
Last night's teach-in was part of a renewed effort by Harvard students to push for more classes and faculty in ethnic studies. A group of under graduates calling themselves the Ethnic Studies Action Committee has said it will go beyond the "quiet activism" of years past...