Word: pushed
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...Council came out against a possible attempt by Harvard's administration to litigate and push off recognition of the newly-formed Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, seeing as the union won in a fair election. Harvard decided not to litigate, and recognized the union's legitimacy...
Sometimes the push and pull between tough tactics and constitutional requirements result in a compromise. For years, drug dealers had made Chicago's public housing projects their roosting ground, selling from apartments and raking the hallways with gunfire during turf wars. Last September the Chicago Housing Authority launched "Operation Clean Sweep." Housing authority agents and police made surprise apartment visits looking for unauthorized residents, many of them alleged drug dealers who had moved in with girlfriends. But some inspectors tended to treat tenants like students in a dormitory, demanding that visitors leave by midnight and nosing through drawers, in effect...
...members of the CCA, and the third--Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--is a fierce Independent who is often the council's swing vote. Although CCA members have made up a minority on the council, cooperation with the mayor on rent control and affordable housing issues has allowed them to push through their program in several areas. Vellucci's departure could threaten this balance...
...three Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) members on the Board push Harvard to divest its $168.3 million in South Africa-related stock and push the Board to take a more active--and often adversarial--role, the University's response has become more closed and paranoic...
That the Young Report is in jeopardy is an indication of the changing role of the Overseers, which traditionally has acted as a rubber stamp for the Corporation, which is responsible for all University policy decisions. HRAAA members and other, more progressive University nominees push for the Board to take a more active role in Harvard's governance, and, as a result, the University strives to marginalize them in the Board itself...