Word: pulled
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...troubles in Finland probably contributed to German engineering giant Siemens' January decision to pull out of its eight-year partnership with Areva. It has also raised questions about CEO Lauvergeon's management style. Critics accuse her of being better at selling big projects than at executing them. Some suggest her refusal to reconfigure the joint venture with Siemens to give it a direct stake in Areva ultimately convinced the Germans they could do better with another partner. (Read: "Siemens Sues Its Own Managers...
...days in total, I felt that invoking T. I. A. to cope with the situation—which the project leader did—was entirely reasonable. After all, no one would have had the right to complain that a shiny, yellow Caterpillar bulldozer didn’t pull up to the swamp alongside dump trucks and vacuum-powered electric hoses to get the job done within a few hours...
...Leonard novel with metaphysical aims. It has the same deadpan dialogue, the same lowlife panache, the same Venice Beach-to-Vegas locales that Leonard has touched down in. But the earthbound author of Get Shorty doesn't go in for Pynchon's lyrical riffs about the immemorial forces that pull the world's secret levers and keep the dispossessed of all kinds - the poor, the nonwhite, the nonconforming - from coming into their...
Calder’s sketches are simultaneously whimsical and technical. In a study for his work Circus, Calder draws a playful trapeze contraption, with his personal notes on how to create it: “Place lead weight on aluminum shelf, pull white thread, releasing weight, pulling phantom up on black thread.” Seeing the actual manifestation of Circus in the next room adds to the impact. The installation is an amalgamation of miniature circus figures: a lion in a wire cage and its long-limbed trainer in the circus ring, dangling trapeze figures, horses, elephants, camels...
...butter issues on voters' minds. "Taxes and jobs are the issue of the campaign. We have the highest tax burden of any state in America, and we have the highest unemployment in the region," Christie told TIME in an interview. "If there's some people who decide to pull my lever in the booth because they don't like Jon Corzine, I'll take their votes too. I'm not particular in that regard...