Word: pulling
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...cheapest of the bunch, the Crunk Bus seats 55 eager Harvardians but already has an extensive waiting list. Pull some connections or sabotage those with confirmed seats—tickets are only $30 roundtrip. The Crunk Bus departs Harvard at 6 p.m. on Friday and is homebound 4 p.m. on Saturday...
...orgasm “every time,” as compared to 75 percent of men. As Hannah Seligson, a current girl-power guru, observes, “The male psychology on women’s orgasms is comparable to their psychology on housework: Men don’t pull their weight on either front because no one makes them...
China, for its part, has been reluctant to take up those new responsibilities. The late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping once admonished his countrymen to "disguise their ambitions and hide their claws." It was useful advice for a country trying to pull itself out of decades of war and chaos. But now China's booming economy and resilience in the face of the global slowdown have left it in a prime position. It holds nearly $800 billion in U.S. Treasuries, making it Washington's biggest creditor. But Beijing is still not confident in acting on the world stage for any interest...
...ground - and that often requires turning a blind eye to corruption and other transgressions. Washington is looking to turn up the heat on Karzai to crack down on corruption by making clear that its commitment to Afghanistan is finite. Yet if Karzai took the threat of a U.S. pull-out seriously, it could make him even more reliant on ties with unsavory protectors...
...story noted that, despite conventional wisdom that a rejuvenated Chinese economy, which grew 8.9% in the third quarter, could pull the global economy out of recession, several skeptics were arguing the Middle Kingdom's performance was unsustainable - and even that it was mostly a mirage. Chief among these naysayers is billionaire hedge fund investor Jim Chanos, who famously sold Enron short in 2001 after concluding that the rosy reports and projections about the company were not based on facts. He has come to a similar conclusion about China, according to Politico.com, and is shorting the country just...