Word: push
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...addition, PSLM members say timing is key--they want to push Rudenstine to implement a living wage before he steps down in June...
...have no need of departmental by-passes in the Core, nor the expanded number of offerings within each Core area. Nor does he care that the council lobbied the Committee on Undergraduate Education to provide more faculty advising for first-years, or convinced the Dean of Undergraduate Education to push for more faculty-led freshman seminars...
...digital thermostat, a baby-diaper detector that activates musical nursery rhymes when wet, and a device that measures soil moisture and waters grass automatically. Many of his ideas never went further than the prototype. He didn't have the money or the contacts in those early days to push them into production. "There are all kinds of ways to skin a cat, and there are all kinds of mousetraps," says Johnson, 51. "Lady Luck is indifferent. She smiles sometimes, and she frowns sometimes...
...urge to learn about stand-up comedy. Going into this current project, he says, "I've always had a secret desire to be a stand-up comedian, but I don't think now I ever will do it, though I thought this would be some kind of push." Although he may not be cut out for the comedy circuit, he is more than capable behind the camera, balancing the adrenaline and pressure of the stage with the banality of a comic's everydayness. Further, Gilman reveals that a comedian's bits and humor often dominate their quotidian affairs...
...question is whether he can get a peace deal out of Arafat. From where Arafat sits, Barak looks desperate, and that means the Palestinian leader can push for a more favorable deal than the one he was offered at Camp David. If Arafat had a plan, it's certainly falling into place. So just as the right wing in Israel kicked out Bibi and then ended up with a left-of-center government instead, so this time the right may have forced Barak to go out and offer Arafat even more than he did before - and if he gets...