"The Kurds are pushing, pushing," said Pascal Ishu Warda, the minister for displaced persons and migration.
"There was a lot of pushing," said Rupp, "guys slowing down in front of him".
"Everyone was pushing," said Griffin, 25, an editor at ESPN.com who lives in West Hartford, Conn., and works in Bristol, Conn.
"When one person is pushing the limits, that creates a pathway for others to follow and keep pushing," said Torah Bright, the Australian halfpipe rider.
"I think that having Olson and Boies lead this effort is phenomenal because it's not just gay rights activists pushing," said Geoff Kors, the executive director of Equality California, a gay rights group.
"You sit there quite often shaking your head just looking at what is going on around you and how hard everyone is pushing," said Chris Nicholson, the former Olympic sailor from Australia who is Camper's skipper.
Given the ferocious competition among small communities for chain stores, restaurants and manufacturers, "everyone got involved in pushing," said Bob Reid, a board member at the Lea County Community Improvement Corporation.
"I was pushing," said Alice Schmidt, a junior from Omaha, who ran the third leg The distance medley consists of successive legs of 1,200, 400, 800 and 1,600 meters.
"If you're constantly pushing, pushing, pushing," said Jeffrey Golden of BearHands & Buddies, which sells animal-inspired clothing and accessories, "you're going to end up losing sight of what you need to do".
"It does debunk the argument of the Pentagon that if you want missile defense soon, your only choice is the missile defense system they've been pushing," said Dr. Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who specializes in military policy.
You got to keep all that in mind when you're playing and pushing," said Mr. McGriff, who will be playing his Hammond B-3 with its two keyboards of 73 keys each (plus a 25-key pedal board) today at 4 p.m. at the Black Potatoe Music Festival at the Red Mill Museum in Clinton.
