Word: push
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...Nets are likely to clash occasionally. CapNetters such as MCI WorldCom, Network Solutions, Teligent and Proxicom are heavily involved in the Internet and telecommunications, while TechNet is a little more software oriented. CapNet is more focused on local issues, like relieving traffic snarls near Dulles International Airport. "We push for policies that would help the region accommodate growth," says Vic Fazio, a former Democratic California Congressman and lobbyist who co-chairs CapNet. "We don't want the quality of life in northern Virginia to deteriorate to the point that you can't attract firms or workers...
...President is going to stay close to his rocky shore in Kennebunkport, Me., in this campaign and pick up the phone when his son calls, which is almost every day. Some of the media will probably go nuts believing the deposed king is in a sinister power push for glory. But as much as anything, the talk will be about how the striped bass are running off the Maine rocks and how much water has collected in the new seven-acre lake built on W.'s Texas ranch. "It's beautiful," injects Barbara. "It has a river running through...
Evidently they have. A second group came up with the same result at about the same time, and the journal Science named the accelerating universe Discovery of the Year for 1998. Riess, 30, now at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., is trying to push the observations beyond the edge. "In the past year," he says, "we've been finding supernovas further away than ever." Who knows what mysteries these distant beacons might reveal...
...President is going to stay close to his rocky shore in Kennebunkport, Me., in this campaign and pick up the phone when his son calls, which is almost every day. Some of the media will probably go nuts believing the deposed king is in a sinister power push for glory. But as much as anything, the talk will be about how the striped bass are running off the Maine rocks and how much water has collected in the new seven-acre lake built on W.'s Texas ranch. "It's beautiful," injects Barbara. "It has a river running through...
Students across the country are now spending their endless summer much like their falls, winters and springs--at school. As part of the push for higher academic standards, at least 25% of school districts--and twice that number in poor, urban areas--mandate summer school for struggling students. In Miami, Chicago and St. Louis, more than 40% of students sweat through summer school. That's in addition to the growing number who enlist voluntarily. Public high school students in Portland are paying for summer courses. New Orleans has turned students away...