Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the end of two periods. But unlike Cornell's last game--a 6-3 victory over the University of Toronto in which the Big Red fell behind 3-0 early then stormed back to victory--Cornell could not keep the momentum to pull off a come-from-behind...
Hoving does not view them kindly. "They could be bidding on pork bellies," he says. But surely the allure of possessing something unique exerts a strong pull. When the annual income of top investment bankers ranges between $1 million and $5 million and when takeover specialists can make tens of millions of dollars on a deal, the ability to buy a Rolls-Royce or a Riviera villa is vouchsafed to many. Only one person at a time can own Mondrian's Composition in a Square with Red Corner...
...conflicting views. The city's sex-education curriculum is described as "value neutral" but, like many other school systems' courses, is actually based on a generalized secular ethic of caring and respect for others. Parents dissatisfied with the version of the city curriculum served up in their district can pull their children out of particular classes by informing the principal. The program is sometimes popular, as it is at P.S. 42, but the effort to accommodate everyone is unacceptable to many. Last month the board of education mandated sex education for the remaining eleven school districts without it. Last week...
...life. Though he rarely says so explicitly, the President has entertained a grand vision of his own: to transform American politics. In his dream, the "Reagan revolution" that began six years ago would culminate in a massive political realignment, one that would make the Republicans the majority party and pull down the curtain on half a century of liberal government activism...
...Woodrow Wilson worried: "America is now sauntering through her resources and through the mazes of her politics with easy nonchalance; but presently there will come a time when she will be surprised to find herself grown old -- a country crowded, strained, perplexed -- when she will be obliged . . . to pull herself together, adopt a new regimen of life, husband her resources, concentrate her strength, steady her methods, sober her views, restrict her vagaries, trust her best, not her average, members...