Word: pulls
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...until such a force is created, Heath said, Britain must continue to discharge its own world commitments. The most expensive way of saving money is to pull troops prematurely out of a country Heath said. He insisted that British troops must remain in those countries which cannot repel foreign aggression or prevent domestic insurrection, he said...
...employers are wrangling with the government over its reluctance to end loophole-loaded controls on wages and prices. Unemployment reached 602,844 last month, leaving 2.6% of the labor force jobless against a 2% level that Prime Minister Harold Wilson once called "acceptable." Rising food prices have helped pull the cost of living to a new peak. Worst, industrial productivity has failed to improve, and though help might have come from private investment, instead such investments have slumped. Soaring government spending for defense, welfare, roads, schools, housing and nationalized industries has raised the specter of higher taxes next month...
Sterne's most important victory this season came when he beat otherwise undefeated Clay Hamlin of Pennsylvania to enable the Crimson to pull out a 5-4 win to to capture the Ivy Squash title...
...Reuther-Meany feud has come into the open again but this time it may be bloody. Early in February, Reuther resigned from the AFL-CIO's powerful executive council and an April meeting of his Auto Workers Union will probably give him the power to pull the union out of the labor federation altogether. A complete split between George Meany, President of the AFL and Walter Reuther, his vice president, and head of the organization's largest union will have grave effects on the entire labor movement...
Bruce Howard anchored a win by the 200-yard freestyle relay team in the final event to pull out a come-from-behind victory for Winthrop...