• As companies abandoned pension plans during the 1970s and onward, Americans were slowly pushed to fend for themselves in retirement.

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  • After carefully reading the law, Dr. McClellan concluded that Medicare versions of HSAs were permissible, and vigorously pushed for their implementation.

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  • The elections had been scheduled for January, but were pushed back to Feb. 18 after her death.

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  • Behind the scenes, companies like Microsoft and Google were lobbying for the holiday to be pushed through.

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  • The visitors pushed for a consolation but were denied by the Saints.

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  • While Germany opposed the plan, other Northern nations like Finland and Belgium were pushing for stricter austerity and conditionality, while embattled Southern sovereigns like Spain pushed for the opposite.

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  • The news that more U.S. wheat customers were raising concerns initially pushed wheat futures lower for the second day in a row, as traders weighed the threat that the discovery of modified wheat could pose to demand.

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  • Those with more time left on their sentence were pushed off to another semester to make room for those that would hit the streets in a few months.

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  • Villa pushed for a breakthrough but they were repeatedly frustrated, Heskey narrowly failing to connect with Barry's fizzed pass and Zat Knight heading James Milner's in-swinging cross on to the roof of the net.

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  • But for at least an hour, questions were pushed aside and Zuckerberg was treated like a hero, at one point receiving a standing ovation.

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  • She started doing motivational speaking for people who were newly diagnosed and it pushed her to finish a lot of things she'd been holding off on, like recording an album, and paying a little bit more attention to me and my sister.

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  • In an interview, AARP spokesman Jim Dau and Legislative Policy Director David Certner noted that the lobby was committed to health-care reform long before Mr. Obama's election, that it pushed for policy additions to the bill that were crucial for seniors, and that it did not endorse legislation until AARP's priorities were met.

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  • The Islanders pushed the pace in the opening minutes and were eventually rewarded for their persistence.

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  • When I published the article, the UFL had suspended training camp for 30 days, its regular season games were pushed back a month and the league decided to shorten its season.

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  • When the Tories were in power, they made hospitals compete for business and thus pushed up health-service productivity.

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  • Mallinder made a raft of changes as Northampton pushed forward for a bonus-point try, but were thwarted as Perpignan firmed up their flimsy defence.

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  • The hosts were having plenty of possession but still looked anxious as the visitors pushed for the single goal they required to go through.

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  • The Blue Dogs were the group in the Democratic side of the aisle that really pushed for the welfare-reform package that ultimately was signed into law in 1996.

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  • As well as some wasteful finishing from the home side, Sunderland fans were also grateful for some heroics from keeper Gordon, who brilliantly pushed away Rodriguez's header from a Gerrard corner.

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  • Malawi pushed for a winner as the second half wore on but were unable to add to the score and Ivory Coast secured the point they required for qualification.

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  • President Ronald Reagan's drive for deficit-inducing tax cuts and deregulation might not have worked if it were not for the grass-roots conservative activism of the 1970s that pushed national debate to the right.

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  • Adventurous Pompey were looking to expose Villa's high back line and, Sol Campbell and Carew, reminiscent of two heavyweight boxers, were in a constant battle for scraps of possession when the home side pushed on.

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  • He offered little cheer for first-time buyers, saying that lenders were still being pushed towards less risky customers owing to lending restrictions.

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  • Ironically, Toorale's sale could mean new life for the local Gurnu-Barkindji aboriginal people, whose forbears were pushed out of their traditional lands around the junction of the Darling and Warrego rivers, where Toorale lies.

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  • England were pushed back in the second period though and were relieved to see Adriana, looking for her 10th goal in five qualifiers, fire narrowly wide with a late free-kick.

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  • If you were looking for a contrast to St A's, you'd be hard pushed to find a club further down the opposite spectrum than glitzy, nouveau Wentworth in Virginia Water in southern England.

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  • Even then, some returns were delayed even more, with taxpayers claiming education credits and depreciation, for example, being pushed back to mid-February for processing.

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  • Logan pulled back three points for the visitors when the Scarlets were caught offside, before a fine run from Dallaglio pushed Llanelli back onto their line.

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  • But more worrisome is the possibility Ryan's rah-rah actually worked for a while, convincing his players they were better than they were, and briefly pushed a mediocre team into an almost-contender.

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  • "One elderly gentleman, who has been working on his plot for two years, had his shed pushed over and smashed, all the tools were taken out and burned, there was absolutely nothing left - it's mindless, " he said.

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