Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Recombinant DNA technology provided the basis for many of the early biotech discoveries that were made," says Stephen Push, vicepresident for corporate communications at Genzyme Corporation...
Genzyme, a Cambridge biotechnology company which is currently the world's fourth largest, was formed in 1981 as an enzyme manufacturing company, Push says. The key breakthrough for Genzyme was the discovery of an enzyme called GCR, which was used to treat a rare disorder, Gaucher disease...
Clinton: I don't feel as good about that. I want to push some of our initiatives more quickly. I am quite concerned about a series of votes in the Congress--on the Senate budget resolution and in the House education committee--[whose] net impact could be to weaken our commitment to education...
...market economics. Conservatives accuse him of neglecting inland provinces, and the Young Turks of Beijing are jealous of his rapid rise. All these factors make Zhu less threatening and more acceptable to President and party leader Jiang Zemin. Also, one needs to consider what will happen to those who push reforms faster than the party elders want. Two very powerful leaders were removed from the scene in the past 10 years because they moved too quickly to enact reforms. MOHSIN A. VAHIDY Karachi...
...year to avoid severe criminal penalties, partly due to her political radicalism, partly for violating postal obscenity laws, she learned more about contraception, the politics of sexuality and the commonality of women's experience. Her case was dismissed after her return to the States. Sanger continued to push legal and social boundaries by initiating sex counseling, founding the American Birth Control League (which became, in 1942, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America) and organizing the first international population conference. Eventually her work would extend as far as Japan and India, where organizations she helped start still flourish...