Word: pushing
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According to Glickman, after four deaths in 1993 resulted from E. Coli bacterial poisoning in fast-food hamburgers, the USDA received the necessary public and Congressional support to push meat inspection programs which detect bacteria invisible to traditional methods...
...Tech bellwethers like Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, supposedly the primary victims of sluggish overseas markets, have been rising steadily of late. And at home, potential flare-ups like the Lewinsky scandal ("Wall Street loves stability," Schwartz says) have had no effect on Bill Clinton's approval ratings--except to push them higher. And a military strike on Iraq looks weeks away. "Wall Street is emotional," Schwartz says. All the big players are buying, and when the mood is this good, only a real catastrophe is capable of spoiling...
...Dean [of the College] tried to push for greater uniformity and greater consistency," Ware says. "But I think there's a strong tradition of freedom of Masters to influence areas that affect policies of House life...
Leslie S. Goldberg, a professional collegeconsultant in Hingham, says that between twootherwise equal schools, the specter of paying offloans after graduation could push high schoolseniors to a school offering more grants...
Intentionally or not, Johnson emerges as Branch's leading tragic figure. Unlike his privileged predecessor, the old Texas New Dealer knew the stink of poverty and racism. John F. Kennedy may have charmed the multitudes, but he did not impress King and other black leaders with his refusal to push hard for civil rights legislation. Johnson, a public relations catastrophe, did the right thing by ramming through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The war, of course, would swallow his presidency and all other issues. That point is powerfully dramatized by the gathering of revolutionizing forces: television, the bringer...