Word: pulled
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...Aung Zaw credits Campbell, who specializes in East Asian and Pacific affairs for the White House, with being well informed on Burma issues. It was unlikely the regime could pull the wool over his eyes, as it has done to other prominent visitors, he says: "Campbell met and listened to everyone, whether they were Burman, ethnic minorities, proregime or antiregime. Everyone was pleased with that...
...Jersey, most recently last weekend; he still enjoys the warm embrace of this blue state with a large African-American population and numerous progressive voters. The final public and private polling in the race favors the Republicans, but the White House isn't giving up hope that Corzine can pull off a surprise. A Democratic defeat in New Jersey will say more about Corzine than the party, and about anger at incumbents across the board in these troubled times, but Republicans will still push the blame on Obama...
When the check arrives at the Patpong Thai restaurant in Chingford, England, Reg Burrows usually pays with plastic. But Burrows, the owner of an industrial-storage-supply firm, doesn't pull out Visa or American Express. He pulls out Bartercard. As a member of the Bartercard trading network, Burrows receives "trade pounds" instead of cash whenever his firm, Global Equipment Trading, works for fellow Bartercard clients. He can then spend that credit at any of the 75,000 member businesses around the world, including Patpong Thai, where he frequently entertains clients. So far this year, Burrows has exchanged around...
...seeing a new kind of show-biz family, a sort of reality-era von Trapps, for whom living in public is a given and privacy negotiable. We can expect to see only more of this in the future. People have got to make a living, after all, and families pull together. They do it for one another. They do it for the show...
...similar script this week coming off two tough losses against top-10 teams, but Harvard failed to take advantage of its opportunity to pull even with the Big Green in the Ivy League standings...