Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coles has been the "main person trying to push for service learning," said John B. King Jr. '96-'95, president of PBHA. "If he leaves, there won't be very many people trying to make it happen...
...neither pilot could explain why the flight data recorder indicated the nose was down. And Greenlee said he didn't remember telling Hayes "down, push it down." Hayes didn't remember him saying it either...
...University and the teaching hospitals generally support President Clinton's push for broader insurance coverage...
Rhetoric about dioxin may push the same kind of emotional buttons. The chemical becomes relatively concentrated in fat-rich foods -- including human breast milk. Scientists estimate that a substantial fraction of an individual's lifetime burden of dioxin -- as much as 12% -- is accumulated during the first year of life. Nonetheless, the benefits of breast-feeding infants, the EPA and most everyone else would agree, far outweigh the hazards...
...lighter sentences than would be given to adults who are convicted of equivalent crimes -- meaning the kids are often back on the streets in a few years, jobless, with a felony conviction that makes employment more difficult to find. The inadequacies of the system led Justice Michael Corriero to push for the creation of the job he now holds. He takes on all juvenile-offender cases that come through Manhattan Supreme Court. In this capacity, he has the power to fashion a midway solution for some offenders, determining whether to send convicted kids to hard time or, if he believes...