Word: shoving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Second, the sport has to be American. Does pro hockey count? No way. When push comes to shove, we all know that hockey is a Canadian spot, not an American one. The idea of a Canadian sport being associated with one of our most treasured holidays is ridiculous...
...strategy that has impoverished the industrial giant. Stempel was laboring to undo the damage when GM's board forced him to fall on his sword after little more than two years on the job. By week's end the directors reportedly began moving to give Smith a final shove as well...
...most Harvard students, 20 minutes marks the time it takes to stroll to the Quad, dash across campus or push and shove through the lunch line at the Union...
...Goldberg goes one up on the world. Twist it, she's a funny little troll. Smile like the Queen of Sheba, she is the Queen of Sheba, a knee-weakening beauty (don't doubt it; like Meryl Streep, who's also less than a stunner, Whoopi can play beauty). Shove out her jaw, she's a bad-mouth male junkie -- yeah, name's Fontaine, attitude's his game, what's your problem? Flash that 82-toothed thousand- watter, time to watch your wallet. Smile shyly, she's a little kid, you want to give her a glass of milk...
Moreover, many experts predict that a collapse of the Uruguay Round would shove the world economy into a protectionist spiral, leading to serious political frictions between the U.S. and its major trading partners reminiscent of the Great Depression. "With the collapse of communism," says a White House official, "we're finding that our relations with countries around the world are focused more on economics and that the irritation points are economic too." If these irritations accumulate, huge regional trading blocs under construction in Europe and the Americas could be joined by one in Asia, all of them bristling with trade...