Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bonnie Honig has deep enemies. She is the focal point. She had her enemies and they took her down, and having done so, they don't have the political clout to push a conservative [Berkowitz] through...
...Advisory Board, charged with orchestrating the national dialogue, has chosen to follow the same fuzzy, emotion-driven path. Thankfully, the idea of an apology for the misdeeds of people long-dead has been apparently squashed by those bright enough to recognize that such a move would accomplish nothing. The push for a slave memorial to be built on the National Mall remains strong. This seems a fairly harmless gesture that might be valuable if it actually served as a balm for the historical wound. Critics point out that space on the Mall will rapidly run out if we construct...
...Congress will have its own commission to study the issue. Pentagon officials already are concerned that if the military rejects the Baker panel's suggestions, conservatives on Capitol Hill will use the study as a lever to push for legislation banning mixed-gender basic training altogether. In what may be an analogous situation, the Administration lost control of a military issue when its unilateral effort to allow openly gay men and women to serve in uniform created a fire storm of opposition in Congress. The result, on that occasion, was a law barring active homosexuals from serving in the military...
...adhere to the agreement already reached with the IMF and faithfully carry out reforms," Kim promised the nation the morning after his win. Well aware of how deep antipathy toward him runs among conservatives, Kim will need to reach out immediately if he is to amass enough support to push through those prescriptions. Last week he successfully requested pardons for two ex-Presidents who, as generals, had persecuted...
Bring on the Victims Prosecutors will use the wrenching testimony of Oklahoma City blast victims to push for the death penalty for Terry Nichols...