Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although many alumni sympathetic to HRAAA have cried foul at the apparent politicization of the once-neutral Alumni Association, the group's new leaders say they're prepared to pull out all the stops to keep the divestment candidates off the Board...
...offer both a carrot and a stick to the West Germans. The carrot is a quicker start to missile- reduction talks, even though the U.S. will continue to insist on keeping some short-range nukes as an essential deterrent to Soviet attack. The stick is a threat to pull out even more U.S. troops from West Germany, which Kohl opposes. "What we have to do," says a State Department official, "is show the Germans that we have ideas for getting a conventional-arms agreement fairly quickly, so they could then get the talks they want on short-range nuclear weapons...
Fewer than 10,000 students remained in the square at week's end. Many of the original demonstrators had returned to campus, to be only partly replaced by students from outside the capital. With the protest fizzling, student leaders indicated that they would pull out by this Tuesday -- but vowed to stage a march through Beijing of 1 million people as a parting gesture...
Under the right circumstances -- temperature in three digits, air conditioner broken, the tube showing tractor-pull-contest reruns, the dog under the bed with an attack of chiggers, marriage teetering, car defunct with black-lung disease and only one movie within walking distance -- Pink Cadillac is a tolerable summer-weight flick. Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters have a somewhat better time than the viewer, but they probably do in real life...
...Forward defense is the strategy the alliance wants. It is a militarily feasible strategy, but, of course, it is not the classic defensive strategy. The classic defense is one that is mobile, trading space for time. We don't have the space to pull back, so we rely on nuclear weapons. But in a Lance- - less world, we might have to relook the strategy. The risks would increase greatly simply because we would have lessened the nuclear capability available for deterrence purposes. I for one would not like to operate at that level of risk, and I don't think...