In Concord, plow driver Jim Pierce said road conditions were awful, and while the fluffy consistency of the snow made it relatively easy to push around, the sheer volume made it a challenge.

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Since Sunglass Hut, for all its ills, remained the largest sunglass retailer, it was in a position to push manufacturers around.

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"On a benign Friday in August with no significant news event, it doesn't take much to push the market around, especially on the close, " said Michael Shea, managing partner of institutional sales and trading at Direct Access Partners in New York.

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When the XPS 12 is in the classic laptop position, you just push in at the bottom of the screen from the rear and it spins around so the screen faces in the opposite direction.

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It feels great around the corners, and then you start to push more to close the gap and then the car really starts to be on the ragged edge but I think it's just downforce, their car is just on rails.

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Twitter, which has said it has more than 100 million active accounts around the world, is making a push to become an online-advertising giant like Google.

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It means "don't waste, " and it's the concept behind the country's push not only to make Japan green, but also to sell the technology it's developed around the world.

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The consortium that is making a push for Yahoo is the same group that went out and bought Skype from eBay and turned around and flipped it to Microsoft, and in the process they made a lot of money.

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