Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most distinctive features of the game is the "scrum." A scrum looks like a giant, violent, amalgamated huddle. During a scrum, both teams form semi-circles and surround the ball on opposite sides. The ball is then rolled into the middle of the teams, and each side tries to push the other side off the ball and gain possession of the ball...
...example of the push for student empowerment, he said, the council should call for undergraduate participation on every University committee affecting College life-- ,including the governing boards and the FacultyCouncil, which have traditionally met in secret...
...made sure history did repeat itself by scratching together what proved to be the winning run in the bottom of the sixth. A single, a sacrifice, and a single to right center scored the decisive run, and despite collecting an impressive 11 hits on the day, Harvard could not push across a run in its last two at bats...
...bracing effect on the economy, it also could force Japan to confront its cultural commitment to lifetime employment. All this downsizing, which has come on top of a severe three-year recession that ended last October, helped push Japan's traditionally low unemployment rate to 3% last year, the highest since 1987. "If the yen continues to appreciate," says Shigeki Tejima, a senior economist at the Export-Import Bank of Japan, "Japanese companies will be forced to stress international competitiveness more than maintaining jobs at home...
...stock at $12.37 a share. By now he has spent about $676 million accumulating a 10% stake. Noting that he had not lined up a cent in financing for his takeover bid, some Wall Street analysts suspect that his real aim is not to buy the company but to push up the value of his stock. Merely by announcing his intentions, Kerkorian boosted Chrysler's stock price $9.50 a share. That was still $6.25 below his offering price--a sign that Wall Street was not fully convinced the bid was for real. But it increased the value...