Minton's support of the bill helped him earn the position of Senate majority whip, allowing him to more effectively push for its passage.
Shaub, whose term was to end in January, was nearly certain his term wouldn't be renewed, so he's leaving for an advocacy agency, where he thinks he can more effectively push for reforms that might strengthen the power of offices like the one he's headed for the last four years.
And while all questions found more support for a deal or negotiations than opposition, live telephone surveys effectively pushed respondents harder for an opinion, because their interviewers do not offer "don't know" as an explicit choice.
That would be sweet for Mr. Phillips, who was effectively pushed aside to make way for Mark Hurd after Mr. Hurd resigned from Hewlett-Packard and became Oracle's co-president.
For example, it persistently and effectively pushed the flat tax idea, which should be-come effective Jan . 1 , 2004
By holding elections in 2007 for a chief executive who will serve a new five-year term, mainland officials have effectively pushed back until 2012 any broad elections for Hong Kong's leader.
Celebrities have effectively pushed products in commercials without tarnishing their brand for decades.
Instead, the campaign took an even weirder turn, which effectively pushed Webb off the stage.
Less than two years later, Karmazin effectively pushed out Jordan and was named C.E.O. of CBS.
