Word: pushing
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Henry B. Hansmann, Harris professor of law at Yale Law School, who has criticized the universities of the Ivy League for short-changing their students in the push for endowment growth, says the banking function should not worry those who fear the corporate university...
...that Clinton didn't take for himself -- that hardy perennial, the tax cut. The good news for Republicans: In dismissing the Clinton Social Security plan before a House committee Wednesday, Fed chair Alan Greenspan had kind words to say about the GOP push for a 10 percent across-the-board tax cut. Now if only Greenspan would start guest-hosting the "The 700 Club...
...Protectors: Stop Aging Now, a 500-page compendium edited by Edward Claflin (Rodale), gives a dozen "stop-time tactics" to push back the clock, such as lists of "superfoods" to eat (broccoli and kidney beans) and exercise tips (do the aerobically beneficial waltz rather than the stand-in-one-place Macarena). The book is full of realistic dietary tricks that add up to many forgone calories. For example, "beware of gourmet cappuccinos and mochaccinos made with full-fat milk." Ask for skim milk instead, and you'll never notice the difference. And put fruits and veggies at eye level...
...After a stint at the Federal Trade Commission, Dole served as Secretary of Transportation under Reagan and Secretary of Labor under Bush. She can take some credit for air bags, airline safety measures and the brake light on the rear windshield of cars. She helped push for the first minimum-wage increase in eight years. These are badges that could help her bring independent voters, particularly women, into primaries--and make her a target of conservatives like Forbes...
...push to make the average undergraduate concentration a little more flexible began two years ago, in the spring of 1997, when the Faculty adopted a proposal by former Loeb associate professor in psychology Michael E. Hasselmo `84 to urge academic departments to look into reducing or capping their requirements...