Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police kept foreign press away, confiscating tapes and briefly detaining a photographer. "I don't think they will relax on issues of democracy and human rights," sighs Hernandez. She predicts that relations with the tightly wrapped superpower-to-be will continue to require a Janus-like balance. "If we push China, they will be forced to be crazy," says Hernandez, "but at the same time, we cannot be too nice to them or they will think they can get away with murder...
Connected both to the Native American and the Harvard communities, students say they will continue to push for recognition from educators, legislators and the general public...
...gubernatorial races, to the point of taking out personal loans from the likes of the Perry County Bank and ordering his chief fixer, Bruce Lindsey, to hand out tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments to encourage voter turnout in the Arkansas Delta. The last-minute push continues to this day: Washington lobbyists complain that Democratic fund raisers were resorting to daily cold calls to donors through last week, even telephoning corporate check writers at home. It seemed to be working: in the first 16 days of October, the D.N.C. brought in $10.5 million, nearly half of that...
Moore uses satire to push his opponents' positions to their most extreme limits, and thus expose the ridiculousness of their thinking. Speaking of right-to-life activists, he noted that if a fetus was a human being, it might as well get a Social Security number, everyone should add nine months to their age, and abortion should warrant capital punishment. "Canadian Bacon," which mocks the American people's willingness to follow President Bush into the Gulf War, presents us with an American president who arbitrarily decides that Canada will be the U.S.'s new enemy, and accordingly declares...
When his own party controlled ,the House in the first two years of his presidency, Clinton tried to push a massive health care overhaul through the Congress. Many voters viewed the effort as a disguised liberal strategy to tax, spend and expand...