Word: pulls
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...HHFA director, Weaver headed a complicated conglomeration of agencies-FHA, the Urban Renewal Administration, the Public Housing Administration, the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"). Weaver himself labeled it "an administrative monstrosity," but he did little to pull it together. In too many cases, city officials complained, it seemed that the Congress would pass a housing bill, the President would sign it, and then Weaver's agencies would immediately wrap it in red tape. Yet it was one of the Government's biggest financial operations, with a capital outlay of investments, grants, mortgages and housing subsidy contracts totaling...
Movie moguls have long sought the perfect pop-art hero, the infallible magnetic moneymaker with equal pull for kids under twelve and adolescents up to and beyond retirement age. Tarzan, a perennial favorite, still takes to the trees occasionally to fight for right, but with obsolete weapons. The Wild West gunfighter endures, though an hombre who traditionally hates kissin' and gets his kicks by digging spurs into horseflesh seems equally ill-adapted to the times. The exquisitely contemporary hero is girl-happy, gadget-minded James Bond, whose legend has already tempted a host of imitators to bland larceny...
...Hofmann was a born teacher. His knowledge of the convulsions of 20th century art was firsthand. He had known Picasso, worked alongside Matisse in sketch classes in Paris. Synthesizing such high-key colorism with cubism, he practiced and preached an intuitive, joyous abstract expressionism. His doctrine of "push and pull," by which he tried to reintroduce the tensions once created by depth perspective into the picture plane, flattened by modern artists, became the byword of abstract expressionism, and he himself became the movement's prime mentor. In his Red Trickle of 1939, he pioneered the drip technique that...
...demand for goods from free-spending consumers and businessmen. Result: the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-shrank from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion last year. The trend, said Connor, remains a "very serious" problem. On top of that, Viet Nam escalation may pull $700 million of gold and dollars out of the U.S. this year as against $250 million...
...M.I.T. maintained strict silence about the possibility that the proposed Inner Belt Highway might intrude upon the fringe of the Institute's campus. But there was plenty of speculation. "Oh, I'd guess they're disturbed," said the cautious. "Let's face it," said the more blunt, "they'll pull every string they can, including LBJ, to keep the Inner Belt...