Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amiable nasal twang, propping his boots on a big console overgrown with gauges and dials in the ship's cargo-control room. "She's trim by the stern now, but I'll have the draft more forward when we leave. Out to sea, I'll pull in the ballast, and she'll be flat." Translation: Portz is monitoring the 106,000-bbl.-per-hour rush of crude oil into 13 separate storage tanks, some big enough for full-court basketball. The ship must settle on an even keel, yet the tanks cannot be filled simultaneously...
...that would help everybody, Steiger and his allies argue, taxes must be cut for the people who have money to put to work. Michael K. Evans, president of Chase Econometrics, figures that if Steiger's amendment passes, stock prices would jump 40% in two years. One reason: investors would pull money out of bank savings, municipal bonds and mattresses to pursue capital gains in the stock market. As prices rose, Evans continues, companies would be able to finance a huge expansion of plant and equipment spending by selling new stock. The payoff: a speedup in economic growth that would create...
...theme of Creve Coeur, finally, is valor. Toward the end of the play, Dorothea says, "We must pull ourselves together and go on, go on - that's all life seems to offer or demand." That has always been Tennessee Williams' credo, and he is scarcely likely to abandon...
Given the speed with which Oxford anthologies become holy writ, Amis' peculiarities are regrettable. It is impossible, though, to pull a long face at his collection. The poems he assembles are pleasing, instructive and full of laughter. Even the index of first lines is surreally madcap. Take the sad little story told in the first five...
...Currier was my tenth choice. I lived there for a semester and then left. But it was a bitch to move. The whole transfer process was run by one woman. The only way to move someplace good was to pull strings by talking to someone inside the House, like a tutor, and having him put in a good word for you", Joan D. Channick '78 said...