Word: pushings
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...That's what the rapid-reaction force is for." If these missions lead to clashes with the Serbs, the French government seemed to be ready to accept a firefight as a legitimate exercise in self-defense. Without going on the offensive, the French seemed willing to push a bit to carry out the mission. But if the reinforcements do not soon deter the Serbs from attacking, and no sign of a political solution appears, the French are prepared to end the effort. "There is no formal deadline," says a government official in Paris, "but if everything is blocked and there...
...Adriatic for 45 minutes waiting for the rest of the rescue package to arrive from other carriers and Italian bases. "That was probably good," Berndt later said. "It took the edge off us, and it got everybody focused and thinking perhaps a little bit straighter." Then came the "push"-authorization from the awacs to enter Balkan airspace-and the mission was under way. Within minutes the aircraft had reached Bosnian Serb territory. At one point, Admiral William A. Owens, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Lake and said, "Our feet are dry," meaning they were flying over...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole traveled to Los Angeles to knock some of its pre-eminent citizens at a fund raiser. The presidential candidate criticized entertainment moguls for producing what he called "nightmares of depravity"-films, television and music filled with sex and brutality that "push the limits of decency." Dole took particular aim at Time Warner (TIME's parent company) for its dissemination of violence-laced gangsta-rap music...
Responding to Congressional pressure, the Labor Department has decided not to issue any rules onrepetitive strain injuries, the painful symptoms often attributed to workranging from chicken-plucking to word-processing. In their push to reduce government regulations, Republican lawmakers have argued againstsetting any RSI standards. Although President Clinton recently vetoed a GOP bill that included a provision blocking the creation of RSI rules, Labor Department officials said that the current climate on Capital Hill made it too difficult to set any meaningful regulations. Department figures say that a variety of musculoskeletal disorders afflict over 700,000 people each year...
Dating back to 1969, When a Black student groupused veiled promises of riot to push a balkyFaculty into creating Afro-American Studies, therehas been a tradition of strong-armed activism inthe BSA. During the deliberations over AfroAm, onestudent sat outside the Faculty room with aconcealed meat cleaver during the deliberationsover Afro-Am; few believe the department wouldhave been created without the threats...