Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard (7-7, 3-4 Ivy) was on the bubble and hoped that its late-season success would push it over...
...many areas where Conservative Christians feel looked down on, they welcome the emotional support for their children's faith. Similarly, non-Christians in the Bible Belt may be put off by the clubs' evangelical fervor; members of the chess society, after all, do not inform peers that they must push pawns or risk eternal damnation. Not everyone shares the enthusiasm Proffitt recently expressed at a youth rally in Niagara Falls, N.Y.: "When an awakening takes place, we see 50, 100, 1,000, 10,000 come to Christ. Can you imagine 100, or 300, come to Christ in your school...
...Goliath so worried? Some of Lessig's past writings could be interpreted to suggest he might have an interventionist bent. But those who know him say Lessig is not so easily pigeonholed. For example, Lessig lost a lot of friends in the computer community when he argued against their push to establish a software standard for filtering pornographic images. Such software, he argued, limits the speech of its users without their even knowing it--a result nearly as pernicious as direct government censorship. It was an interesting insight, and many legal scholars were looking forward to hearing what Lessig would...
Still, the recent mergers of Citicorp with Travelers, NationsBank with BankAmerica, and Bank One with First Chicago show that the push for bigness remains intense. Just about everyone expects a handful of not-quite-ready-for-prime-time banks--Mellon Bank, Wells Fargo, Norwest, Fleet Financial and others--to be bought or to find partners themselves. Meanwhile, those same banks, and many middle-size ones too, sport prices inflated by speculation. Their high stock prices give them currency to shop for smaller prey of their own. Fertile deal territory, for sure...
...armed forces at 18, and not subject to the blond-haired, assimilated sexual longings he is given to in the United States. This vision of a state which is the national manifestation of the Jewish people is what compelled Zionists from Minsk to London to Cambridge to push for the creation of and to then settle and fight for the state of Israel...