Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think there is much less tolerance of that [philosophy]," Johnson says. "Instead of letting people learn the hard way, there is now a greater push to educate them away from that...
Harvard kept the pressure on B.C. all game. The Crimson continually tried to push men upfield to take advantage of its ball possession...
...demand immediate implementation of government pledges to raise wages and improve conditions. When one Minister called for postponing the expensive concessions, Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov rejected the proposal. "The government must keep its word," he said. Soviet legislators are concerned that if such strikes continue or spread, they could push the shaky Soviet economy to total collapse...
...push for uniform goals is relatively recent, however, while the movement for uniform financing is more than two decades old. Since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that equal access to education is not a fundamental right under the federal Constitution, at least ten states have seen their school- financing systems overturned under state-constitution provisions. In June the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down that state's financing methods, ordering the legislature not only to equalize spending but also to reorganize "the whole gamut of the common-school system...
...mounting bills for AIDS patients have renewed a call in some quarters for a national medical-care system. "Optimistically, AIDS will push this country into getting universal health insurance," says New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph. "Or we may be reduced to narrow-minded scrambling to see who gets what piece of the pie." However, the current budget crisis, plus resistance to socialized medicine, makes that prospect a far-off solution. In the short run, a combination of public- and private- sector responsibility, translated into cash, seems to offer the best hope for coping with this ongoing human crisis...