Word: push
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Begin professed astonishment at Weizman's resignation. "I've told all my friends I'm not going to stay in politics after I'm 70," he told aides. "Ezer is still young. He could have been Prime Minister one day. Why did he have to push so hard and do it in such a brutal...
Seven Sumner Rd., a four-story brick apartment building a block from the Yard, has become an unlikely symbol of Harvard's push outward into surrounding residential neighborhoods...
Golf at Harvard is one of those sports "you have to do on your own," and besides forcing Greis to push herself into peak form, it also forced her to exploit all available opportunities herself. For Greis, that is what Harvard is all about. "I see college a little differently than most. Some live for the shelters of academia. I think you have to get out and attack the real world every so often. I want to go out there and make a world for myself--this place can be quite a shelter." Indeed, leaving Harvard's protection...
...County Auditor Kim Yerxa estimated that cleaning up Ritzville and the rest of the county will cost $2 million; the annual budget is only twice that sum. To clear Ritzville's streets, Sheriff Snowden directed a fire truck to spray the ash so that a road grader could push it into 3-ft.-high dikes. They, in turn, were shoveled up by road crews. But Snowden predicted that it will be a year before the town is free...
...industry has become remarkably homogeneous. It likes to hire its future leaders young; both General Motors and Chrysler operate degree-granting institutes. Competitive pressures push ambitious employees to put in eleven-hour days and six-day weeks if they aspire to the top. Men who make it (and there are virtually no women in top management posts) have spent 25 years or more within their companies...