Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...postwar years, during which Kokoschka cast himself as a maestro appointed to pull the great European figurative tradition out of the grip of abstraction, his art declined in vitality. One soon wearies, for instance, of the view-fromthe-boardroom cityscapes of Berlin, London and New York that he turned out in some profusion for Axel Springer and other bigwigs of the postwar boom years. But to say that his talent collapsed like Chagall's is quite untrue. Chagall painted nothing but cloying ethnic kitsch for the last 30 years of his life. But in some of Kokoschka's last paintings...
...police directive was one more pull on the noose of restrictions that make up South Africa's national state of emergency. It stated that 33 community groups, student organizations and labor unions in Johannesburg were forbidden to hold any indoor meetings, their outdoor meetings having already been banned in June. An immediate storm of protest broke loose, the kind that usually inspires the Pretoria government to dig in its heels. Instead, two days later, the Bureau for Information, the sole official outlet of news on the emergency, announced that the government was making an about-face. "Errors" had been made...
...much bigger worry, however, is that the institution will fail to come up with enough funds to encourage the kind of policy changes needed for long-term Third World growth. Warns Lawrence Brainard, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "Barber Conable will not be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat to solve the debt crisis...
...itself a minority of one on the subject of sanctions. Last month, after a visit to South Africa, some members of the Commonwealth's Eminent Persons Group declared that the worsening situation made sanctions a necessity. At least one Commonwealth leader, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, has threatened to pull his country out of the organization unless Britain adopts a firmer policy on the South African issue. So last week the British government took the symbolic step of inviting Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress, to meet with Lynda Chalker, a minister of state in the Foreign Office...
Still, manufacturers are facing tough decisions. It will cost Johnson & Johnson $150 million to pull out of the capsule market, and Bristol-Meyers will lose $38 million. These days executives are voicing varying degrees of commitment to the controversial capsule. Said a spokesman for American Home Products: "We have no intention at this point in time of discontinuing our over-the-counter capsule business." At another time, he implies, things could change. Echoed a spokesman for Sterling Drug, maker of Panadol and Midol pain relievers: "We are still marketing the capsules. But it's a fluid situation. Any instance, such...