Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were going to have a tough fight with them regardless, but the weather made things more difficult," said cocaptain Amy DiMarzio. "It was harder to push the ball and make passes through puddles. But we both had to play through...
...pillar of moderate Republicanism, the first woman to deliver a State of the Union response and a frequently mentioned candidate for Vice President. Her state is flying high, with unemployment at a seven-year low and welfare rolls cut 31%. And she is good on the stump: parents constantly push squirming children into her arms and whip out Instamatics to record the moment for posterity. But despite it all, Whitman's bid for re-election is fast shaping up as the cakewalk that wasn't. Her favorable ratings have dipped below 50%, a traditional red flag for an incumbent...
...course, for all their caviar and fast cars, the girls still want to shoop, and several tracks capture the same roilingly playful sexuality that has been a group trademark since 1987's "Push It." Few of the songs on Brand New work as effectively away from the album as they do within it--there is no "Shoop" or "Expression" here--but the hormones are bouncing as brazenly as ever...
That might be a relief if it also didn't reflect something more troubling: a White House without energy and a sense of purpose. Clinton's 1997 has been slow off the ground. His initiatives on race and volunteerism have fizzled from lack of follow-up. His push to improve public education has lacked ambition: Administration officials admit they made standardized tests the centerpiece of their plan not because anyone thinks they are the most vital improvement but because they are the least expensive. And the President's current efforts to bolster his trade-negotiating authority may have come...
...their grandchildren. "We were always able to talk him out of it," said successor Bill Guthridge, his assistant for 31 years. "This time we couldn't do it." Smith said he realized it was time to go two weeks ago, when he was watching his protege, Larry Brown, push the 76ers through a practice at Chapel Hill: "I thought, 'I used to be like that.' If I can't give this team that enthusiasm, I'd said I'd get out." But there is also a smiling suspicion in North Carolina that Smith waited until the eve of fall practice...