Word: pushings
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...little wrong with the ends (students' reading each other's work) justifying the means (students working harder on their papers). Enlarging the audience would not change the mission of students' work; it would only push us as writers to invest more time and care in what we write. In this frenzied, time-pressed college atmosphere, incentives to focus on our work are essential...
...Clinton Administration dispatched U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson last week to push Mobutu into a face-to-face meeting with Kabila to arrange a "soft landing," allowing the President to retire on grounds of ill health. Richardson carried a letter along those lines from Clinton. The special envoy was also trying to persuade Kabila that he should accept a cease-fire, commit himself to early elections and open the way for aid agencies to help feed and evacuate tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees who fled the fighting only to starve in the Zairean jungle. Both men disliked the terms...
They also woke up to a Labour majority of such a size--419 seats--that it should prove easy to push through Tony Blair's program of giving power to Scottish and Welsh assemblies and kicking the hereditary peers out of the House of Lords. It is the biggest Tory defeat in 165 years: half the government have lost their seats, the party is virtually leaderless, the succession is wide open, and the only Tory politician who is looking calm, secure and confident is Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned loyally for John Major but privately forecast his catastrophic defeat. She will...
...primary preoccupation: the man in the mirror. Just as Oracle reflects Ellison's warrior spirit, the company's future will mirror his dreams about where technology is headed. And his wonderment on that subject seems livelier than ever. "I'm endlessly curious as to how far I can push technology and how much technology can change our society," he says, an urgent note creeping into his voice. "All sorts of interesting questions need to be asked. Can Oracle become a more important company than Microsoft? I'm curious." So is the rest of the world...
...current post as the first U.S. ambassador to a communist Vietnam when he arrived in Hanoi on Friday. It is no surprise that Peterson says a top priority will be to account for American MIAs. For its part, Vietnam's government wants to use the occasion to push for closer economic ties to the U.S. Although President Clinton lifted a decades-old trade embargo in 1994, Hanoi is still seeking most-favored-nation trade status. But even as the government looks to America to improve the economy, moving on from the agony of war first against the French and then...