Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face the challenge of proving that their unlikely yet promising pairing can indeed produce results. We are most enthusiastic about the team's pledge to focus on important student services. Specifically, we believe three areas should top the agenda in 1999: academic and personal advising reform, a renewed push for greater diversity on the Faculty and the start of a serious dialogue among students and administrators about the construction of a viable new student center...
...study is part of a three-year, million-dollar push by the ASNE to figure out just why people don't trust them as much anymore, and, by extension, to reverse declining circulation. The good news for print? Readers distrust television even more. Some 42 percent rated the box the most biased form of news media, while print clocked in at a relatively svelte 23 percent...
...possible defeat. Despite the embarrassing missteps of chairman Hyde--who reversed his widely panned decision to broaden the impeachment inquiry into campaign-finance abuses just two days after he got started--the week ended with the Clinton camp showing signs of desperation. In what might be an attempt to push the vote into next year--when five more Democrats enter the House--Clinton's lawyers demanded that they be given three extra days this week to call witnesses and argue the President's case in front of Hyde's committee. At the White House, optimism that the President will escape...
...this listener often sounded dry and analytic. Not this time. Captured with a MiniDisk recorder plunked on a table at an unnamed New York City nightclub, this is an unusually live "live" album. Playing tunes by Ellington, Monk and Parker as well as an original, Osby and his quartet push and probe but are also unafraid to play pretty. So why aren't all albums recorded in clubs...
...accept the extinction of species as an inevitable natural occurrence. He answers that we are not accepting it; we're inducing it. "I could argue for the economic value of preservation--the biotechnology that leads to the discovery of medicines and so forth," he says. "But if you push me to the wall, I'm for zero deforestation, zero extinction. I believe we have a moral obligation to other species. The only real reason for saving them is that it's right...