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There probably is a virtuous circle at work in which the strength of the economy as a whole pushes up stock prices, the gains from which are then put back to work in the economy.
OK, I was a puddle after some scenes, like the one where Guaspari pushes a student to get her to improve her posture and discovers that the girl is wearing a leg brace.
Similarly, the LAT front-pager on Iraq policy, by the estimable Robin Wright, pushes down to the 14th paragraph the claim that Washington is now "almost irrevocably involved" until the objective of toppling Saddam is achieved.
It's hard not to think of Charlton Heston in The Agony and the Ecstasy : Alone on the high scaffold, paint dripping into his upturned eyes, he pushes forward with his Sisyphean task as Rex Harrison (playing Michelangelo's impatient patron, Pope Julius II) paces angrily below.
These roughly suce, together with the hot gas compressed in the cylinder head, for work to happen as the hot gas expands and pushes on the piston.