Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before you pull up stakes, ask yourself how much money you might need to live year to year. Experts say it's somewhere between 60% and 80% of your annual income before retirement. Even if you plan to retire with lower fixed costs in a state with little or no taxes, "don't go much lower," Satovsky warns. "If your cost of living drops, you may decide you want to spend more money on new, more expensive habits, like travel...
...level that drives other Cabinet members nuts. One weekend this summer, when both Summers and Rubin were on vacation, Clinton began to panic about Russia's weakness. "Where's Bob?" the President kept asking nervously in a morning meeting. Turning to White House staff members, he told them to pull together a plan. The team spent a weekend crashing a strategy, only to be shut out again when Rubin arrived back in town. An aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright regularly worked the phones during last summer's Russian collapse, insisting that reporters were missing the story--Albright...
...supporting the web of life? Dombeck hopes a plan being developed by a committee of scientists will offer a model of multipurpose, sustainable forest management. But pushing that plan through Congress and finding a way to finance it may be jobs so big that even Paul Bunyan couldn't pull them...
Markus: Joakim [Joakim Berg, the singer/songwriter] writes most of the material. He always does it with an acoustic guitar. They're almost always really slow songs. He comes with the songs to rehearsal, and we try to arrange them, pull up the tempo a bit. "If You were Here" was originally a ballad, really cheesy...
...gave Duke a 19-6 lead, but Virginia rallied, out-scoring the Blue Devils 19-12 over the next seven minutes to pull within 31-25 with five minutes left in the half...