Word: pulls
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...pass tests down to 31 degrees, and a small heater installed at each joint, just in case. Another is a "capture latch," a metal lip containing an added O ring, which would force escaping gas to turn an extra corner and lose momentum. The maximum distance that joints can pull apart under the stress of launch will be reduced from the current one thirty-thousandth of an inch to one-fifth that figure. A "vulcanized, rubbery substance" will replace the putty that now fills the gap as a sealant...
...treat us like male clones?" Similarly, Rosenberg argues that her feminist opponents minimize all the significant male-female differences and cultural influences that might explain the preponderance of men in high- pressure sales jobs, including women's greater distaste for cutthroat competition and their greater attention to the pull of home and family...
...remain a credible factor in the year before the 1988 campaign gets under way in earnest, Robertson must broaden his appeal and pull together a staff that can handle the complex logistics of a national campaign. One thing working in his favor is that he is positioned to run well in the South's pod of primaries, caucuses and conventions that will be held in the same week in March of 1988 and will choose perhaps 30% of the delegates to the national conventions. (So is Jackson, who may reap the South's black Democrats the way Robertson may reap...
...President, you see, "will seek to remove drugs from schools, the workplace, athletic programs, and from all elements of society, "his spokesman Larry Speakes said the other day. That's a pretty big undertaking. And how does he hope to pull it off? "The President will seek to form a partnership with government, industry, schools and the American public," Speakes said. That's a pretty big partnership. And to show that he means business, the President himself underwent a urinalysis during his recent hospital visit...
Ironically, the shift in tactics that was expected to increase the pull of the Eurocommunists may have been their undoing. As they tried to adopt policies that would appeal to a larger group of leftist voters, the Communists began to look like just another party that would compromise and make back-room deals. In Italy, the party's break with Moscow left voters questioning what kind of program the Communists would put into place. The French Communists' decision to join, then pull out of, a Socialist government had comrades grousing that the alliance had been a tactical mistake...