Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aesthetics is not the biggest problem. Skywalks are, in most places most of the time, pseudo-sensible amenities. They are artifacts of an earlier, 1964 World's Fair era, when convenience -- insulation from nature and from the urban hurly-burly -- was the great American goal, neurotically pursued. Skywalks pull pedestrians off the streets year round, rain or shine, hot or cold. Inside their hermetic world, urban dwellers are deprived of much of the richness of the city. "Cities are places where people are drawn together to experience one another," says Elliot Willensky, vice chairman of New York City's landmarks...
...Montazeri, Khomeini's designated successor. Iranian leaders may have realized that the old man alone possessed the power to extricate Iran from the war. "It was vital for Khomeini to move now," said a U.S. intelligence analyst. "After his death, there would be nobody with the authority to pull...
...Warner Bros. cartoons, these types never formed alliances; their fate was always to awaken one another's madness and trigger the chase. It is the genius of John Cleese's plot to imagine them leagued together for a London jewel robbery, which they pull off perfectly. This is when Cleese, Monty Python's Minister of Silly Walks, enters the picture as Archie Leach, a barrister hired to defend yet another member of the gang. Though Cleese has written himself some nice screwball-comedy turns, Leach is no Cary Grant. He is really a grownup Tweety bird, an innocent with...
...computer controlled, including the F-14 and F-16 fighters and the B-1B bomber. But those planes do not need to be as stable as commercial airliners. Says Tom Foxworth, a pilot for a major U.S. airline: "The difference is that if things go wrong, military pilots can pull a switch and bail out. But your Aunt Tilly in the back of a commercial airliner isn't equipped...
...point of the comparison is to suggest that U.S. policy in the Gulf is such that it will lead to immoral acts, and thus that America should pull its forces out of the region...