Word: pullback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...economy slowing and the Fed?s rate hikes near an end, that seems unlikely. These stocks won?t continue their torrid run indefinitely, but Muhlenkamp believes they will continue to rise. If he?s right on this group-and he has been for half a decade-the occasional pullback should be viewed as an invitation to join his house party...
...were holding out for written Israeli assurances that three further Israeli withdrawals in the West Bank countryside would take place according to a specific schedule, ending preferably by next September or, at the latest, the following January. The Israelis were prepared to commit to a date for the first pullback only, preferring to keep the timing of the other two as a card to play in later negotiations. Says the talks insider: "Arafat created something of an artificial crisis at the last minute, but that's his traditional negotiating tactic. The shooting maybe gave him an excuse, but he doesn...
...With real (i.e. inflation-adjusted) oil prices having more than tripled since the last recession ended in late 2001, a pullback by the heretofore unflappable American consumer is a distinct possibility that would spell trouble for the rest of the world. Particularly worrisome is the possibility of a double whammy for the world's fastest growing region, non-Japan Asia. This economic bloc is likely to be hit especially hard by the combined impacts of its inefficient energy consumption technology and its excess dependence on the American consumer...
...invariably moves a few steps forward--then a few steps back. Even as thousands of Lebanese gathered in Beirut's Martyrs' Square on Saturday to call on Syria to end its occupation, thousands of Syrians cheered Assad as he told his parliament that he would make only a partial pullback of Syrian forces. "Bush, Bush, listen. The Syrian people will not bow!" chanted the crowd...
...happy to ignore Arafat's legitimacy as elected President of the Palestinian Authority. A democratic vote could empower Palestinians with the mandate to make peace. And that could present the Bush Administration with an opportunity to press Sharon into expanding his unilateral withdrawal from Gaza into a negotiated pullback from much of the West Bank...