Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rawlins especially hopes to continue working for racial and gender equality. This desire comes after no real attempts were made to push for an ethnic studies concentration, something of high priority to many students on campus. As for gender equality, although the council passed a bill requesting that all official uses of the word "freshman" be replaced with "first-year," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 vetoed it, leaving the issue unresolved. And even though many faculty have been tenured over the past year, the council took no action to try to get students more involved...
...felt O.K. in doing so because on most other fronts, I went along with her. Thou Shalt Not Smoke Pot is not the 11th Commandment, I rationalized. Armed with that perspective and the sound of my mother's voice in my head, I could tinker with the rules and push the boundaries without being afraid I would cross them. So, Mom, it was your fault after...
...conviction that was overturned on appeal. By the '80s, he had set out for Europe to help run an Amsterdam-based company called First Commerce Securities, which became mired in scandal. The operation was a classic boiler room--a brokerage firm that used high-pressure sales tactics to push dubious securities. Telemarketers dialed for dollars around the clock to all points of the globe...
...Harvard shuttle bus route. " Kudos to the candidate who offers Kinko's free advertising on all campaign literature in exchange for free poster copying. Or the first one who gets a fat check from some Harvard alumnus with the proviso that the candidate, if elected, not try to push for any sort of ethnic studies because the alum thinks it's all bunk...
...electing a running mate, the tendency is to want to push an agenda, maybe one that other council members don't want to work on," Kaplan said. "The president should be more of an arbitrator and a unifier...