Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe Carril will notice that the Crimson actually trailed by six points at halftime, and then turned around and outscored the Judges, 33-21, to pull out the victory. "Hummm, pretty impressive for a team that would fold after falling behind in the first half last year," Carril might think, no longer sporting that snicker...
Against the Lions, only Captain Peter Einaudi managed to pull out a winning record, capturing two of his three matches...
...change of strategy was so sudden and striking that even veteran policymakers were taken aback. After stressing for months how important it was for the U.S. to stay competitive in high technology, the Bush Administration was getting ready to pull the plug on its two most widely publicized high-tech initiatives. According to reports circulating in Washington, the Administration was determined to cut not only the $10 million it had pledged for research into high-definition television, but all federal support -- including $100 million in 1991 -- for Sematech, the Reagan-era industrial consortium designed to catapult the U.S. into...
...misstep. For Bush, therefore, slow is better than fast and standing pat is often the safest posture. Once he replaced Ronald Reagan, Bush's instinct was to apply the brakes to the juggernaut of improved U.S.-Soviet relations, to take the turns very cautiously and perhaps even to pull over on the side of the road and study the map for a while...
...universe began with the Big Bang and the energy from that explosion started to condense into matter. Since then, ordinary visible matter, by itself, has probably not had time to gather into enormous structures. But cold dark matter may have condensed first, and its gravitational force could have helped pull visible matter into bubbles and galaxies. In fact, recent computer simulations at Princeton of a universe dominated by cold dark matter look remarkably like the real...