The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more nearly perfect solution.

NEWYORKER: The Tweaker

There is a competitive fire in many managers who want to do all they can to win, and like NFL coaches they may be tempted to push, pull, and prod their people so that the team wins.

FORBES: Don't Let Your Young Employees Act Like RGIII

You model objects in Amorphium by starting with a primitive shape such as a sphere or cylinder, or some text, then simply use the mouse to grab the shape and pull, push, or twist it into a new look.

CNN: Amorphium offers 3D modeling for the rest of us

As states work to balance budgets and Midwestern states host political battles that hold the fates of union benefits for manufacturing and state employees, labor is seeing a troubled push and pull between workers who are struggling to match their wages with what the economy needs from them in terms of consumption.

FORBES: The Unemployment Hurdle: Public Jobs

Amid that push-and-pull, stocks had moved to record highs in recent weeks.

WSJ: U.S. Stocks See Broad Selloff

We must prod, push and pull our legislators in Washington, DC to put a price on carbon now, to accurately account for the true cost of energy and spur investment in an alternative energy future.

FORBES: Looking Beyond The Oil Spill

Teams, which can range from three to five people, must pull or push their homemade outhouse down a city street and must also have at least one rider on the seat inside.

BBC: Toilets take to the streets in annual US outhouse races

Books like The Power of Pull by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison talk about it in terms of the shift from push to pull.

FORBES: Not Just The U.S.: Worker Disengagement Is Worldwide

And that's why the endeavor required a pair of 600-horsepower push-and-pull trucks, along with dozens of workers leading and following to displace and restore countless traffic lights, utility poles and the occasional pesky palm tree to make way for the shiny red caravan.

WSJ: Levitated Mass | Arrival of a Rock Start | By Arnie Cooper