"The tragedy is that the solution to Cochabamba's water problem has been pushed off for at least another five years," Michael Curtin, a Washington-based executive who became president of Aguas del Tunari after its removal from Cochabamba, told me.
Elsewhere, a few people suggested that, they guessed, it might possibly, perhaps have occurred a decade or two ago, when they were living on their own, or sharing with friends who had pushed off for the weekend.
SOMERVILLE, Australia, April 9 — From one of the most remote places on earth, Herman Wanggai stepped into a 75-foot motorized outrigger last November and pushed off for a calculated and clandestine journey.
With signs reading "Please Wash Hands Before Eating" taped to the dining room walls and the captain reassuring passengers that no one would get sick, the Holland America Amsterdam pushed off for South America tonight after a 10-day scrub down.
The blend of colada, not the reach of Norwalk virus, was the topic on the Lido deck as the Amsterdam pushed off for Caracas, Venezuela, at 6 10 p.m. "You could get sick anywhere," said Jerry Wildberger, a retired steel worker as he watched the shoreline slip away.
The spaces are always empty when Bitner photographs them: revellers have glugged the last of their beers and gone home, bands have pushed off for the next date (or, in the case of the Canton Memorial Civic Center, in Ohio, where the country singer Hank Williams was scheduled to perform on New Year's Day, in 1953, before his heart stopped in the back seat of his Cadillac, have never even arrived).
On Jan . 20 , 1969Mr. Fairfax pushed off from the Canary Islands, bound for Florida.
From the pool steps, I faced down, raised my legs, pushed off and floated for a few seconds.
Relief and furtive pleasure can be glimpsed in the eyes of the fleet commuter who slips through the closing doors just as a train pushes off for home.
It's 10 15 p.m. and there are still acres of creamy desert fatigues to go for the 12,500 soldiers pushing off for the Middle East.
That allowed the soldiers a few precious days with loved ones before pushing off for a six-month deployment to Kuwait and Egypt.
