Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GRADUATE. Director Mike Nichols doesn't quite pull a Babbitt out of the hat in this sophomoronic film about the disillusioning encounters suffered by an idealist college grad (Dustin Hoffman) when he returns home to Los Angeles...
...Increasingly the reaction, when one is frustrated, is to pull a gun or call out the troops or drop the bomb," he told a news conference. "I don't honestly think that this is going to be the answer to our problems at home or to problems internationally." In Detroit, where he spoke at week's end at a Romney fund-raising luncheon, Rocky emerged just long enough from his noncandidate's shell to tell reporters flatly that he would accept a draft at the convention-"if one came about...
Cooperation has become necessary for the Trucial States since Britain decided to pull back its 6,000 troops and its two Hawker Hunter jet squadrons from the Persian Gulf by 1971. Arab nationalists in South Yemen have vowed to oust the sheiks, and the Egyptians, Saudi Arabians, Iraqis and Iranians are also out to extend their influence in the Gulf. Result: the Trucial sheiks are scurrying around looking for ways to protect themselves. Last week's pact is just a start toward banding together in the face of danger. This week the sheiks gather in Dubai to discuss enlarging...
...just three weeks ago, in fact, when Warhol without notice sent a buddy named Alan Midgette to impersonate him in a lecture tour of Western colleges. The ruse wasn't uncovered until someone in Oregon thought to call Andy in New York. Warhol's inspiration to pull the same dodge in Stockholm was dashed when he recalled that he has known the Moderna Museet's director since the early 1960s...
...teachers had some reason to complain that this was the wrong time to pull tight the purse strings. The average teacher salary in Florida is $6,660, which is $660 below the national norm. And while Florida is growing rapidly in population and wealth, it is actually slipping in the share of state revenue devoted to education. It ranks tenth among the states in per-capita income, but at $523 per pupil, ranks 37th in what it spends on the schools. Ten years ago the state contributed 59% of the cost of the schools; last year this had shrunk...