Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually asked for their opinions before he asked for their money. He questioned them about the political landscape, about the other candidates' strengths and weaknesses, about policy--the kind of intellectual stroking that fund raisers don't normally get. And Bush's team set out to pull in a whole new cadre, people who hadn't been interested in politics before because it was an old man's game, who had watched the Democrats anoint the baby boomers in 1992 while the G.O.P. grayheads fumbled. As Bush told a fund raiser in the fall of 1997, "If I do something...
...there he was in full birthday mode last week, munching a Morton's roast-beef sandwich after tumbling wildly through 5,000 feet of Texas sky. He was so blissful up there, he missed his skydiving instructor Glenn Bangs' signal to pull his rip cord. (Bush's other parachuting companion, Andy Serrano, pulled it.) "What a high!" he laughed as his promise to Barbara not to jump again slipped away with each memory of touching the clouds in free fall...
...property. The U.S. hopes to organize and oversee committees of local Kosovars to help U.N. officials coordinate the rebuilding of infrastructure, schools and clinics. But international-aid workers and peacekeepers will have to compete with the K.L.A., which will want to reassert control over villages as the Serbs pull...
...have to be what you want me to be; I'm free to be what I want"), the poetry (his ability to compose rhymes on the run could very well qualify him as the first rapper) or the quips ("If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up!"). At the press conferences, the reporters were sullen. Ali would turn on them. "Why ain't you taking notice?" or "Why ain't you laughing...
...just beginning to see what women can do and how their creativity can enhance the policies and practices of any field or profession. I recently saw some figures showing that women in America are getting as many professional degrees as men. Wow, I thought, we can pull up our skirts and declare victory--if only parenting were considered the equal responsibility of men and society. That's the next step...