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pushy

poo shee

  • s  marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative

  • Because girls understand that if they're too pushy, too uppity, or too physically powerful, they will be called lesbian, man-hating feminists and will lose all popularity.
  • Well, here's the deal: small towns have their own value systems, and in this situation those values are a lot more valid than the dispassionate, pushy inquisitiveness that .
  • When 31-year-old American reporter Bernard Krisher arrived in Tokyo in 1962, many people said he was too brash, too much of a New Yorker, too darned pushy to get along in decorous .
News & Articles

  • Dan Pink on the New ABCs of Selling
    Attunement, buoyancy, clarity--that's what you need to survive the new world of sales, says the bestselling author. Salespeople are pushy, but we're all selling something these days, Dan Pink , the bestselling author of To Sell is Human, said during the World Innovation Forum Thursday. "Like it or not, we're all in sales now. You are selling, but the cash register is not ringing. You're selling ...
    June 13, 2013 - Inc Magazine
  • Dan Pink on the New ABCs of Selling
    Attunement, buoyancy, clarity--that's what you need to survive the new world of sales, says the bestselling author. Salespeople are pushy, but we're all selling something these days, Dan Pink , the bestselling author of To Sell is Human, said during the World Innovation Forum Thursday. "Like it or not, we're all in sales now. You are selling, but the cash register is not ringing. You're selling ...
    June 13, 2013 - Inc Magazine
  • Parents Lobby — and Win —a Shot at New Lungs for Their Kids. Are Transplant Rules Made to Be Broken?
    Score one for pushy parents. The families of two children with cystic fibrosis who need new lungs but were ineligible for adult organs have successfully used the courts and public opinion to get their daughter and son on the adult waiting list, which is normally unavailable to kids under 12. On Wednesday, one of those children — Sarah Murnaghan, 10, whose family escalated their daughter’s quest ...
    June 12, 2013 - Wellness
Quotes

  • Julia Irwin in International Herald Tribune
    We seem to allow some of our male politicians to be aggressive and pushy, but women are expected to be meek and mild,Irwin told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio Thursday.
  • Jerry Jones in International Herald Tribune
    That's at (Goodell's) discretion, and I don't want to do or say anything that would imply that I'm getting anxious or pushy about it,Jerry Jones said Wednesday.
  • Al Jean in Jerusalem Post
    The show's executive producer Al Jean told the magazine that Cohen's character is "trying to get Marge to give him good grades on the comment card, and she goes, 'You people are pushy,' and he goes, 'What do you mean, you people? You try having...

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