Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massacres panicked foreign investors in South Africa, and many multinational corporations, mainly European, started to pull out of the country. The South African government declared a state of emergency which, by banning the PAC and the African National Congress ended all legitimate peaceful black opposition. After Sharpeville, the black liberation movement in South Africa went underground and the attitude of the black majority turned decisively towards armed struggle against the white minority government. At the same time, a group of U.S. banks, corporations, and powerful businessmen like Charles W. Engelhard bailed out Pretoria with a loan of about $40 million...
...matron replied that there was no mistake. "Pull down your pants, squat three times, and spread your vagina," she ordered. When the girl's disbelief turned to defiance, the matron calmly warned: "If you don't cooperate, six guys will come in and do it for me." The matron first probed the girl's anus and then, without washing or using sanitary gloves, examined her vagina. The girl's humiliation was increased when she noticed several video cameras in the room, part of a closed-circuit security system with monitors at the desk in the building...
...third day of the invasion, it was falsely reported that the Chinese forces were already preparing to pull back...
Like some other recent new models, the X cars will have front-wheel drive; with FWD, engine power is delivered to the front wheels to pull the car. European manufacturers have long been using FWD, but the U.S. industry began and grew up with rear-wheel drive, and Detroit's chiefs regarded changing to FWD as prohibitively expensive...
...gallon. It is another thing to talk about fleet averages. That means you have got to have some cars that get a lot more than 50 miles a gallon if you are going to have the bigger alternative models people in the past have found they needed to pull a trailer or car ry a full-size family." The only way to sat isfy both the conflicting demands for in creased mileage and full-size cars is to make ever lighter models while sacrificing as little interior space as possible. To accomplish that, the industry is experiment ing with...