Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...service of some kind." A 53-week program in the Texas Air National Guard qualified him in F-102 interceptors. Lieut. Bush signed up for a program that rotated Guard pilots to Viet Nam, but he wasn't called. Instead he held short-term jobs, including a stint at Pull for Youth, a Houston program serving ghetto youngsters. "I wasn't interested in taking root," he says. "I was having fun." Once, with Marvin as company, he decided to take a few of the Pull for Youth kids on a plane ride. One of them became abusive and refused...
...attention into a bright political future. Though he has appointed , a deputy to ride herd on the reform effort, it is Kemp who will be judged by the results. And an image of Mr. Clean -- or even better, Mr. Cleanup -- would look fine in 1996, if nimble Jack can pull...
...pull off the deal, Goldsmith and his partners propose to borrow nearly $17 billion. Drexel Burnham Lambert will raise $6.4 billion through a junk- bond issue, and Bankers Trust will assemble a consortium of banks to provide the rest. Yet B.A.T investors would get no cash for their 1.5 billion shares. Instead, Goldsmith and his partners, bidding through a company called Hoylake Investments, would pay B.A.T shareholders a combination of Hoylake stock and loan chits worth $13.82 a share (B.A.T stock was trading at 11.28 in London before the deal was announced). Hoylake would pay down the debts by selling...
Once welcomed as liberators of a land enslaved in Somoza servitude, the revolutionary F.S.L.N. has proved adept at only one thing: holding on to misused power. -- Leaders of Israel's Labor Party threaten to pull out of the national-unity government. -- By meeting with Botha, South Africa's Mandela gives his blessing to direct talks between blacks and the government...
...removing the debate from the judiciary to the state legislatures, the two sides may be able to pull each other, grudgingly, into the great middle where the TIME poll and other surveys show most Americans reside, tolerating for better or worse the ambiguity the issue carries with it. A quiet majority favor choice in the first stages of pregnancy but are nonetheless deeply troubled. Many intuitively recognize that as a fetus grows, so does society's obligation to protect it. Precisely where that obligation begins or ends remains the imponderable. But whoever can capture those still groping for an answer...