Word: thrusted
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...most of the thrust for reform has come from Governors, legislators and businessmen concerned about a shrinking pool of qualified workers. "Reform has been a sort of top-down initiative," says John Moore, chairman of the department of education at Trinity University in San Antonio. "Teachers were never brought into it." As a result, while progress was made, many reforms were misguided. In Houston, for instance, state rules requiring failing students to be tutored foundered because of problems in scheduling the sessions and the fact that many students failed to show...
Faced with those potential calamities, Congress has labored for months on the trade legislation. The main thrust of the bill is to require that the President act against countries that put up unfair trade barriers against American products. In the past, the White House could ignore findings by the International Trade Commission, a Government agency, that U.S. industries were being hurt by foreign competition. Under the terms of the trade bill, the President would have less latitude to disregard the commission's recommendations that these industries be given import relief. The bill would also require that the White House launch...
...late 1960s for the Air Force's giant C-5A cargo plane. The engine was the first to use a high- bypass technique in which a fan, working like a turbocharger in an automobile, pushes large quantities of air past the combustion core to produce much greater thrust. The CF6 turbofan (current cost: $6 million each) has broken the hold Pratt & Whitney had with its JT9D on the giant Boeing 747. GE has boosted production of its most powerful version, the CF6-80C2, from 110 engines in 1987 to 260 this year to meet a backlog of nearly 500 orders...
Dean Spence would be wise to follow MSA's advice; he would be wiser still to accept the full thrust of the MSA report and to formulate a centralized program of action. As the report clearly indicates, it is not enough to leave such goals in the hands of individual departments...
Freud was an unimposing man, 5 ft. 7 in. tall and nearly always dressed in conservative coat and tie. He did, however, have a penetrating stare, and an English analyst who visited him after World War I noted the "forward thrust of his head and critical exploring gaze of his keenly piercing eyes." There was the neatly trimmed beard and the ever present cigar. He was addicted. Writing to his fiancee in the early 1880s, Freud the lover justified his tobacco habit with the romantic observation that "smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss." Elsewhere, in a professional...