Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raid and by sunrise be sipping coffee in Italy--and praising the Lord for helping him find the ejection handle. Stunningly, in a war that NATO believes killed some 5,000 Yugoslavs, not a single allied pilot died. Western military technology finally seemed to have transformed war into a push-button exercise. And it is on exactly this point that debate is beginning...
...method to the megalomania. Milk knew that the root cause of the gay predicament was invisibility. Other gay leaders of the day--obedient folks who toiled quietly for a hostile Democratic Party--thought it more important to work with straight allies who could, it was thought, more effectively push for political rights. Milk suspected emotional trauma was gays' worst foe--particularly for those in the closet, who probably still constitute a majority of the gay world. That made the election of an openly gay person, not a straight ally, symbolically crucial. "You gotta give them hope," Milk always said...
...have watched other negotiations and seen other negotiators be threatened to have their jobs contracted out," says Williams. "That's why we try to stick together; they try to push unions around...
Supposedly, they are collaborating on their efforts to set up international outposts, but Harvard's only office abroad--located in Hong Kong--remains exclusively the domain of the Harvard Business School. And while HLS is ready to push ahead with another campaign, Knowles is dragging his feet, insisting Harvard settle into a noncampaign mode...
...current administrator says Knowles is far more conservative than Rudenstine, especially when it comes to spending money. He is skeptical, for example, of plans to move ahead on "distance learning" at Harvard--education over the Internet and through correspondence. Rudenstine, on the other hand, wants to push forward with planning on the topic...