Word: push
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...final estimation, Harvard kept it close the entire way, and led into the final minutes before suddenly refusing to score. With a game this close and even the entire way, and no team having a lead larger than seven, the final push for Holy Cross and Head Coach Ralph Willard may have come from an intangible: the presence of Boston Celtics Head Coach and General Manager Rick Pitino...
Yeats said the center cannot hold. A computer expert tells me the punchcards cannot hold. The cards are "prepunched" at the factory that makes them - that is, scored in dozens of places with tiny blades to make it possible for the voter to push them through with relative ease. Even the most stringent quality control at the punchcard factory, the expert says, cannot prepare the much-bladed punchcards to survive all the manipulation they are getting...
These complications could push the choice back to a constitutional amendment to elect Presidents by popular vote alone. But by majority--or would a plurality be enough...
When he first won a seat as a Congressman from Mississippi at 31, Lott was more ideologue than pragmatist, joining up with Newt Gingrich and Jack Kemp to push an agenda of deregulation and tax cuts. But as he rose through the leadership ranks, first in the House and then in the Senate, Lott mellowed, earning a reputation as a tough negotiator willing to make sacrifices in order to get things done. When he became majority leader in 1996, Lott reached out to moderate Democrats and the White House, efforts that led to the smooth passage of welfare reform...
...India's prowess in information technology isn't a new phenomenon. For years, the southern city of Bangalore has been a high-tech oasis where Indians write code for international tech giants and export software to the world. But the Net promises to push the IT boom into India's mainstream. Cities like Hyderabad, Bombay and New Delhi are promising telecom links and tax holidays to prospective business investors. "India always had the talent, but with the Internet, we've found the delivery mechanism to transport this talent around the globe," says Prakash Gurbaxani, who set up his own dotcom...