Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mikhail Gorbachev may yet pull everybody back to square one, by changing his mind or getting the sack. Even if he stays on his present course, he will remain the ruler of a big country with large arsenals. There is enough history ahead for all but the most jaded. Once the malign magnetic field that held us with such power breaks, however, conservatives will have to find new ways to meet history. "Most of us," wrote political philosopher Kenneth R. Minogue in 1963, "are, in some degree or other, liberal. It is only the very cynical, the unassailably religious...
...Marshall Field's on the block. However, Altman's problems went deeper, in part because it had acquired a dowdy, passe image. The company might have been turned around by the right owner, but Herscu, saddled with $1.5 billion in debts, had neither the cash nor the vision to pull off such a difficult renovation...
While the momentum definitely favored the Cats,Harvard forward Tim Burke would silence the crowdwith an equally impressive goal 30 secondslater--pushing the puck off the near post pastMillham--to pull the Crimson to within...
...Judges had one last chance to pull out the win, trailing, 48-46, with 18 seconds to play. But four Dana Smith foul shots sealed their fate...
...seven-minute scoring drought in the first half, the Crimson (2-3) trailed the Judges (3-3), 25-19, at halftime. But Harvard rallied behind a 7-0 run to start the second half and 13 second-half points from sophomore forward Ron Mitchell (17 points, 7 rebounds) to pull...