Word: push
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...current water quality standards, plus an additional $6 billion to build and repair sewer lines under city streets. It will take even more for municipalities to go further and separate the main and storm sewers that now flow together to contribute so heavily to the pollution problem. This would push the total cost to $50 billion...
...stiffer opposition in the Senate where. Harvard officials privately hope, legislators are somewhat less prone to showboating and somewhat more tired of the Patriot's continual pleas for a stadium. This may not be enough to assure the bill's defeat: Senate President Maurice Donahue may well decide to push hard for its passage, in order to embarrass Gov. Sargent - no friend of Donahue's - by forcing him to veto it or back down from his previous opposition to using eminent domain on Harvard Stadium...
...Justice Department, which earlier this week announced that it would make every effort to ensure complete desegregation by next fall, has not yet committed itself to enforcing the new court deadline. But lawyers for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund plan to use the decision to push for immediate desegregation in at least 200 cases now pending before the courts...
There seems little reason to believe that the situation will improve. The Nixon Administration has demonstrated no readiness to push for tougher laws, shown no desire to deploy any massive manpower resources. Ironically, Stennis, admittedly more interested in relieving pressure on the South than in achieving desegregation in the North, offers a chance for change. He is threatening to push a bill that would make existence of a black-majority school within any largely white system prima facie evidence of segregation. His move, which could mean a loss of federal funds for racially imbalanced school districts, needs both Northern...
Merrill in Merrill's Maranders decides to keep marching onward, probably to extermination. His decision denies the validity of physical and psychological fatigue; but this side of human existence revenges itself upon him. In the final push, mustering his men, he drops from a heart attack. In his exhortation immediately before he is clearly insane, he orders men forward against their bodies and wills for some maniacal purpose. Having stressed one aspect of reality and denied the other, he is stricken down by what he denied...