Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gambit carries greater risk: "Delaying IMF funding may be dangerous, because the effects of the Asian crisis are now being felt in the U.S. economy," says Carney. "The Asian crisis and pressure from business will push Republicans to support IMF funding, but they figure that holding off for a couple of months boosts their leverage won't hurt the IMF." And Clinton hasn't even seen the knuckleball...
...without putting teachers down. Texas Governor George W. Bush, who is testing the presidential waters, is also going at the issue indirectly by condemning "this business of passing children through our schools who can't read." The subtext: this Governor can insert himself in the classroom but won't push teachers out of the way. New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato is the exception to the rule: while his campaign for re-election this November has embraced traditional Democratic causes as varied as the environment and health-care reform, he's nonetheless stuck to the Dole approach on education...
...unions are dismissive of alternative certification for people who want to teach--liberal arts graduates or people from other industries--without having to acquire teaching degrees. Advocates of alternative certification like Silber push it as a way to increase the number and quality of interested teachers. But while 100,000 teachers have been licensed through alternative programs, union leaders remain cool to the idea: "If John Silber wants to take a job in any school in America, I'll help him get his alternative certification. But this is not how to attract better teachers," says Feldman...
...mythmaking will be easier because of the bizarre circumstances of Abiola's demise. Still a prisoner, he had just sat down with a top-level U.S. delegation visiting Nigeria to push for democratic reforms when he had trouble breathing and collapsed. Ninety minutes later, he died in a military hospital. The mystery of his death touched off riots in Lagos and other southwestern cities that left at least 55 dead as his fellow Yorubas took revenge on Hausa northerners, the ethnic group that dominates the military regime. Angry youths set fires and barricaded the streets of Lagos, battling police...
...with Softbank's $250 million infusion into Yahoo last week, the most likely use for the cash is promotion. Look for a big push in September for E*Trade's stab at a "financial portal" called Destination E*Trade. Originally slated for a roll-out last May, the E*Trade site is supposed to be the personal finance and investing version of ESPN Sportzone or CBS Sportsline -- a central hub with monster traffic that's worth money to other marketers. This suddenly seems workable, especially if Softbank's even bigger web investments throw traffic to E*Trade. In related online...