Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they will boycott the elections unless specific remedies to these problems are enacted." ICG's announcement comes one day before Secretary of State Warren Christopher visits Sarajevo to voice the Clinton Administration's support for holding the vote on schedule. A delay of the national election would also push back the withdrawal of American troops in Bosnia. To Clinton and Christopher, the integrity of the entire Dayton Accord is at stake, and the U.S. has worked to ensure that other provisions are observed. Clinton himself pushed hard for a resolution of a Croatian boycott of the Mostar city council...
Whatever happens in the fall, a legacy of Perot's race may spark a more durable movement that survives his defeat. Owing to the energy from 1992 and Perot's push this year, Reform parties in various stages of development are gaining traction in half the states. Lamm has said Perot is not the figure to take the Reform Party into the Promised Land of electoral viability. "Pass me the torch," he has implored the Founder. Perot has no intention of doing that just yet, and anyone who comes near it is likely to get burned--if Perot doesn...
...studying a rock the size of small potato to see whether there is life on other planets, Congress must decide how much money to give the space agency. At NASA's press conference announcing the stunning finding, agency administrator Daniel Goldin introduced his panel of experts with an unsubtle push for new funding, thanking the President and Congress for their "unwavering" support and describing the agency's projects in glowing terms. As the conference drew to a close, Goldin proposed that the President and Congress appropriate more funds to resolve the scientific issues. The announcement and conference may have been...
...hallucination, you can feel it), heads in unison dip-duck-flinching, abruptly frozen time (an instant that seems terribly long), until at last the crowd's comprehension comes to a scurrying critical mass, and then--the surge just short of panic (young mother and father each crouching-hurrying to push a child's stroller away from the violent whatever-it-was); and, crisscrossing the screen, center to right, a young man with an inappropriate smile and turned-around baseball cap, his smile expressing, perhaps, a kind of macho embarrassment...
...bill that will push more than one million children into poverty will not save poor families. A bill that fails to make work an alternative to welfare is not about jobs. And a bill that emphasizes budget-cutting rather than assistance is not reform...