Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion we become a debtor nation of the worst order." More and more U.S. manufacturers, he fears, will build their factories abroad unless, for example, they are forced by domestic-content legislation to keep production Stateside. "And once they're invested," he says, "you can't pull them back. In the (capital) investment world, once you've done it, you've done it! A guy buys a Toyota, you can get him back three years from now. But you can't bring an auto plant back home. As the months or years go on, we are deindustrializing the country...
...game who announces an impossible bank shot involving awkward, oblique angles and chancy ricochets, and then does it. All over the country, people were impressed. Gil MacDougald of Atlanta thinks Iacocca is great, and has a plausible sociological explanation to boot. "In America," says MacDougald, a window washer, "people pull for underdogs and they just love a winner. Iacocca was both...
...Lionel Richie, was one of the first people Harry Belafonte called. It was Kragen who suggested making the sort of record that British rockers had released on behalf of Ethiopian relief during the holiday season, Do They Know It's Christmas? Kragen calculates, conservatively, that USA for Africa could pull in $50 million. But, he cautions, "more than a billion dollars is needed just to feed people in Africa this year...
...offer to fight again. "If they pay me right, I'll be back one more time," he agrees, but there seems no one left to fight. After Bey, Bonecrusher Smith and Tim Witherspoon, it is hard to go back to ordinary opponents. Just two more victories and Holmes would pull even with Rocky Marciano; a third match and his lasting record could be 50-0, the roundest figure in boxing since Buster Mathis. But Holmes appears to be impervious to such things, and it is just as well...
...should they be. The nameless, stereotypical comedy props are Falstaffs for the Eighties, the stuff of a rich comedic vein that runs under and holds up the presumptive romance in this comedy romance Even against Cusack's domination of this running improv show, his co stars pull off a remarkable success time after time findfors in her few on-screen minutes, plays Professor Traub as more than just a wacky writing teacher: she is a kind of Paper chaselaw professor, seemingly about to utter. "Take this dime and call your mother Tell her you will never be a writer...