"Generally, those people have fallen prey to a pushy, overbearing loan originator who wanted to close a loan, " del Rio says.
There was Erasmus Darwin, an enormously fat doctor, Matthew Boulton, a pushy metal-goods manufacturer, and Josiah Wedgwood, the man who turned fine pottery into a commercial goldmine.
More than half the energy customers interviewed said that they found doorstep salespeople either "pushy" or a "nuisance".
La Leche League meetings are well attended and everyone has a breast feeding fanatic friend or knows a pushy lactation consultant.
"I am not a pushy parent, " said Mr Buddell.
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Because it allowed drones at real-estate development firms and banks to construct elaborate scenarios for a piece of raw land and adjust them rapidly if market conditions or a pushy client demanded.
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Until the last half hour, when the direction gets a little pushy, the picture has an offhand, unassuming grace.
If you are so pushy as to want a copy of the hospital report, it is just about impossible to get.
Ebullient and seemingly inexhaustible, with an intensity tempered by a ready laugh that can be heard from down the hall, the red-headed Quinn is the kind of person who can describe herself as a "pushy broad" and not make you wince.
The head of an international school in Singapore feels that Ms Chua is describing a type of pushy middle-class parent of any ethnicity found across the world.
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In our view, parents ought to decide how many children to bring into the world and when not the state, or a church, or pushy grandparents.
However, even in Thailand, low interest rates and pushy banks have encouraged consumers to go on a spending spree.
Still, executives need to strike a balance between getting noticed without becoming overly pushy.
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However Anna May Mangan, mother of four and author of Getting into Medical School: The Pushy Mother's Guide, told the BBC that being a hands-on parent was important because "our schools don't teach children to be competitive".
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"Male artists are much more pushy and power-related, " says Eva Presenhuber, a Zurich-based dealer who noted she recently threw a toned-down party for the artist Karen Kilimnik because the artist doesn't like to promote herself with splashy events.
For example, there's a scene in the Only Make Believe show where Donald Duck's pushy manager and sibling Derek Duck, played by actor Dax Valdes, strong-arms the animal sounds store merchant (Saluda Camp) to produce a new quack for his boss.
Why encumber themselves with this pushy, opinionated, conceited, publicity-seeking soixante-huitard (sixty-eighter) and a German, to boot?
They already owned a house on Martha's Vineyard, but that island seemed to be getting too crowded and too pushy with its khaki-and-loafer cocktail parties.
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