By the late eighties, when I arrived at M.I.T. as a graduate student, Halle was pushing seventy years old.
Sony's PlayStation 2 is now pushing four years old; its chief rival, Microsoft's Xbox, is only slightly younger.
No one could blame you if you didn't recognize any of those names: those devices are all pushing three years old, and it's very unlikely that Samsung had any left sitting its in sales channels anyway.
The dollar's stability against gold, pushing five years now, is a signal that there is awareness afoot that the 21st century will not be that of the dollar unless it wins in free competition against other comers.
"We thought we were on the rise with Obama but now we're just being pushed eight years back.
"We keep pushing". Four years ago, amid growing outrage and facing lawsuits, Customs and Border Protection began to reexamine its practices, starting with a review of 67 cases by a professional policing group that found serious failings in how the agency limited deadly force.
Few news outlets reported that the Democrats were pushing a ten year tax increase to pay for this one year payroll tax cut.
Worse for Gonshaw, an environmental bill that the R.S.P.B. had been pushing for twenty years had just passed.
"But it might also be helpful to us, because it's going to be hard for any opposition to be steadily pushing for seven years".
While the Taliban have demanded a withdrawal within as little as six months, the American side has been pushing for three years.
Senator Littell, who could provide some help for the governor, had a proposal to repair the state's dams, something he had been pushing for six years.
