Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another possibility is that the arcs were once galaxies but were somehow stretched out of shape by the gravitational pull of other galaxies. Yet gravity strong enough to distort a galaxy would be unlikely to leave behind anything as well organized as the observed arcs. A third explanation -- that the arcs condensed from...
Gulbaddn Hekmatyrar, head of the Hezbi-i-Islami guerrilla group and one of the most hard-line of the insurgent leaders, said that Moscow's recent statements about wanting to pull out of Afghanistan appear genuine...
...Harvard police were next on the scene, and about 10 minutes after the sighting MDC Lt. Thomas Quirk saw the boy floating face down 30 feet from shore and swam out to grab him. Other officers threw life preservers out to the pair to pull them...
...Angeles, life in the fast lane involves so much getting into and out of cars that motorists often have trouble remembering exactly where their vehicles are parked. Now customers who pull into the nine-level parking complex at the Century City North office tower have a new memory device to steer them to their cars: show tunes from famous motion pictures. Different parking levels have their own movie posters and such piped-in music as We're Off to See the Wizard and the theme from Star Wars...
...French Quarter, a redeveloped riverfront, and is seen by many as the best place to party. But its request for a delay may have hurt its chances. "If they can't get it together for one lousy little weekend," complained one committee member, "how are they going to pull off a convention?" The rival cities couldn't have been more pleased...