Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former Prime Minister of New Zealand and architect of the free world's first comprehensive social security system; of a heart attack; in Wellington. A stocky socialist, Nash used his post as Minister of Finance in New Zealand's long-running (1935-49) Labor government to push through a womb-to-tomb measure that provided everything from butter to baby bonuses; he became Prime Minister in 1957, but taxed his utopians so heavily that they ousted him from office three years later...
...Every damn thing they asked for, we gave them just like that," one member of the Faculty's Committee on Educational Policy said last week. The "they" are the members of the Harvard Policy Committee which last year managed to push `````````````proposal after proposal through...
...contribute to the HPC's success but they are simply subsets of a dominant characteristic: an unusual willingness to play the legislative game by the Faculty's rules. Lucid position papers, frequent compromise, and judiciousness are all highly valued in the Faculty, and the HPC has been able to push cautiously and successfully for the none-too-radical reforms it has advocated...
...DISCOVERY of the university opens up new worlds. There is a vast wealth of conspiracy to be uncovered, large numbers of liberal professors to humiliate, and it is not lonely at all. It is fun. It is great fun to manipulate the Establishment, to push it around, to outsmart it. It is what David Riesman calls "mischief" with a consciousness of the absurd always there...
...half the students voted for any kind of student government in the December election and interest in the future of RUS was at best sporadic. But in a sense this helped. Throughout the long negotiations, Miss Batts, with the skill of a seasoned diplomat, was very careful not to push the administration not a corner, not to precipitate a "confrontation," not to heat emotions. And when the ultimatum came, it came in a very subtle form: Columbia. The administration did not feel directly challenged. It did not have to worry about saving face...