Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began to testify, Fitzgerald has himself become as much the center of controversy as his revelations. "What's in it for him?" is a question that fascinates both Fitzgerald's friends and his foes. Cynics view him as an empire builder and opportunist who wants to push his own management schemes on his superiors. Those who are anxious to curb military influence call him a patriot, however. Fitzgerald, 42, explains that his "conscience and professional integrity were violated by the sight of the Pentagon's inefficiency and waste...
...raising the prices of their products. Thus, even large pay raises have yielded little if anything in added purchasing power. During the last three years, in fact, the purchasing power of the average U.S. worker has done no better than hold steady. Union leaders now feel that they must push for giant wage and benefit increases to keep their members ahead of price boosts. But some are aware that the raises may only give the inflationary spiral a further upward twist. Says Phil Stack, a New York Teamsters official who helped negotiate the $57.60 hike: "Every time...
...Clout. Though his report got wide attention, Magaziner felt that Brown was slow in carrying it out. As a result, he staged mass rallies to push his reforms, organized three-student teams to work on every faculty member and turned his gift of gab on the administration. As president of the student body (and class president for all four years), he had the clout to mobilize hundreds of disciples with a single telephone call, which set off a chain of calls across the campus. In May, the university finally approved the new curriculum for a two-year experimental period...
...whole boat on antibiotics and reduced practice sessions to about half-intensity," coach Steve Gladstone explained. "We were hoping that the quality of work we had done earlier in the week could push us through the first round even if the boat was feeling...
None held your eye for long, each offsets another. Different types of pieces push the spectator in many directors, questioning, threatening, challenging the eye to understand flashing pink strokes of light or a black and white kalidescopic pattern...