Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to this questionable asset, the limo has also allowed them to pull some gags. For the premier of the latest Bond thriller, "A View to a Kill," they asked the manager of the Sack Cheri to set aside some seats for the film's author and his party. Elvy pretended to be the chauffeur while a friend from M.I.T. pretended to be the author. When they arrived, the manager eagerly shook the alleged author's hand and showed him and his "bodyguards" in to a row of prime seats. The pair attest that the plan came off without...
They did like to pull the occasional prank, though, like the time a missing bell clapper off student riots...
Critics argue that a U.S. withdrawal of investment would hurt rather than help the situation of blacks in South Africa. Fully one-third of the U.S. companies listed in Standard & Poor's 500 large American firms have some ties to South Africa. If they all pull out, the argument goes, the U.S. will lose its chance to influence the government. Many blacks will be deprived of jobs in the American firms, which generally offer considerable racial equality. Groups like the World Bank argue that all of black Africa would be adversely affected by divestment, because economic growth on the continent...
...mass was concentrated in an incredibly small volume, the matter continued to exert tremendous gravitational force. Like the Cheshire cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that vanished, leaving only a smile, the great mass of galactic material in effect disappeared. Only its gravity remained, continuing to pull in nearby stars and dust...
Since 1980, the thrift industry has been struggling to pull out of a slump caused by an interest-rate spiral that peaked with a prime rate of 20.5% in 1981. Competitive pressure forced the thrifts to pay 10% or more to bring in deposits, but their income remained far below that level because it was largely dependent on old, fixed-rate loans paying interest rates...