Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They reported that Americans had lost confidence in the future, and that it did not matter who was President because the country was spinning out of control. Carter decided to charge back into the national consciousness, said the aide, figuring that "a challenge like energy can be used to pull ourselves together"?both as an Administration and as a nation. The first step was taken Sunday night, when Carter acknowledged the problems and appealed for support. But Carter almost surely misjudged the next step...
...ninth auction put on by John P. Wilson, 40, a former precision-instruments salesman who switched to the nostalgia industry nine years ago, when he turned an unexpectedly tidy profit on a surplus lot of 1,000 old pull-chain toilets -a $100,000 windfall now memorialized in the name of his company: Golden Movement Emporium...
...Carter is to pull his presidency out of its nosedive and have a fighting chance of being renominated and re-elected in 1980, he will have to come down from the Catoctin Mountains with a dramatic answer to that question because at week's end the explanation for the Camp David mystery seemed to be nothing more-or less-than a spectacular display of White House ineptitude, followed by a desperate, last-gasp scramble to salvage something from the wreckage. By all indications from Administration aides, Carter canceled his energy speech because he realized, only 30 hours before...
...Borg was as relentless as ever, and worked skillfully on Tanner's weakest point, his backhand. After Tanner won a tie breaker to capture the first set, Borg breezed through the second, breaking service twice. Tanner came right back to win the third set, and looked ready to pull a stunning upset...
...before it gives its consent. The Senate is not going to accept a pig in a poke." Both Carter and Brezhnev have warned the Senate against insisting on changes. Said the Soviet leader in Vienna: "Any attempt to rock this elaborate structure, to substitute any of its elements, to pull it closer to one's self, would be an unprofitable exercise. The entire structure might then collapse." Scoffed the unconvinced Jackson: "They're already trying to do a little blackmailing...