Word: pushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think that's an assault and battery," said Paul Merry, MCAD's general counsel. "If she had been a non-disabled person, he would have been able to grab her by the shoulders and push her out of the way of the elevator door. That would clearly have been battery...
...Hancock Building's brochure trumpets praises for New England's tallest sky scraper: "come aboard the express elevator and feel the excitement build as you are whisked 60 floors straight up to the high point of your Boston visit." On a clear day, if it is possible to push through drooling third graders gluing there faces to the glass, the observatory has a fantastic view of the harbor and the Charles and a "picnic of contrasts." It is pretty easy to spot the River houses with Dunster's red tower as a beacon in the middle of the Square...
...Push comes to shove if Harvard adopts andcommits to a weak policy," he said...
...used to be that long-term-care-insurance plans were only for older people," says Richard Coorsh of the Health Insurance Association of America. But in 1996, Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, a bill making the benefits tax free, a not so subtle endorsement of and push for boomers to buy such policies. On average, a policy that covers $100 a day at a nursing home (with inflation protection) costs just $802 a year for a 50-year-old and $1,829 for a 65-year-old, according to a study of national averages by the H.I.A.A...
...some of academe's and Wall Street's most cherished models of the world. More data and faster markets, says Greenspan, mean more opportunities to make money. They also mean more chances to lose your shirt, something he calls "the increased productivity of mistakes." Computers make it possible to push a button and destroy a billion dollars of wealth. The chairman was warning about the problem long before Long-Term Capital Management vaporized $4 billion, but that debacle silenced any skeptics of the new risks...