Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoking educational programs in local youth centers and schools. Researchers have found that teens who have friends that smoke are twice as likely to light up as those that don't. We congratulate the City on its efforts to crack down on smoking and hope it will continue the push to alleviate the problems of selling cigarettes to minors...
...Harvard to satiate even the most toughened soul. But, upon grounds of efficiency, we must request the posting of grades alongside ID numbers. If this practice becomes common, students' privacy will be protected and their hunger for grades will prove satisfied. Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell should push for such a change in the University's rules...
...this is right, there can be no directionality, no innate drive forward; in particular, no push toward consciousness and intelligence. Should Earth be struck by an asteroid, destroying all higher life-forms, intelligent beings, still less humanoids, would almost certainly not arise next time around...
...civil suit filed in 1985, his former wife Gale Wenk du Pont charged that John had threatened her with a knife and gun and tried to push her out of his moving car. Neighbors recall such incidents as Du Pont's driving two Lincoln Continentals into the farm's pond, one after another, and arriving at one of the houses on his property on Christmas Eve, drunk, bloodied and in his army personnel carrier. "It was like a Howard Hughes scenario," Martha du Pont, wife of John's brother Henry, told the Associated Press. "He withdrew from his family...
Well, do we need the ballast of expert opinions and attributions to inform and justify our tastes in art or literature or music or--in the late 20th century--in all the electronic entertainment available at the push of a remote-control button? The snap answer is, hell no, we don't. But that is not really true. Aesthetics, for all the millions of words that have been written on the subject, remains an inexact science. We cannot say why a painting once supposed to be by Rembrandt loses face when its connection with the master is disputed or disproved...