Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team of educators, by organizing a press conference on the steps of the State House, helped to push the issue teacher testing back into the spotlight...
...board member dissented from the view expressed by Lipp that debt-fueled consumption and big current account deficits were "a sword of Damocles." Though that danger may not be immediate, Hormats noted, it is probably behind efforts by U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Deputy Secretary Lawrence Summers to push for Europe and Japan to do more for global economic growth: "I think they see this vulnerability coming down the road, and they want to head it off as much as they...
...next few months, Balkin's assistants will pay people to stay up until 4 a.m. Then they're going to give them wads of gum and keep them up 14 hours more, testing their alertness by having them push a button as fast as they can when a signal goes off. The subjects will do this until they go mad and beat one another in a way that's uncoordinated enough to entertain the scientists. At least that's how I would run the experiment...
...riot), when he, playing Dr. Pangloss, sings about how he contracted a virus most resembling syphilis in an attempt to save himself from execution for heresy. At several points he breaks into a curious Russian dance, the ensemble matching his energy and spirit as they kick and push him towards one of the black poles, set up as a gallows. Not only is the song about his contraction of the disease hysterically funny, but all of Nuccio's hand gestures, facial and physical expressions take Candide beyond slapstick. In every scene in which he performs, Nuccio is unquestionably the star...
...office ended last week after Georgetown acceded to the student demands. And it could happen here. Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, one of the organizers of the sweatshop protest at Harvard earlier this week, told The Crimson Tuesday that occupying an administration building isn't out of the question: "Push comes to shove if Harvard adopts and commits to a weak policy," he said...