Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high. They're now producing about 3,000 tanks a year -- far better tanks, by the way, than anything they are talking about removing. Consider what just this one indicator means. They say, and I agree after having studied it, that it will take them about two years to pull back the 10,000 tanks in an orderly fashion. By then they will have added at least 6,000 newer ones. It is certainly strange that their tank production is so high when they already have such a superiority relative to the allies. Recall too that this increase in tank...
Harvard had every reason to feel crushed. Down 6-1 late in the first half, the Crimson rallied to pull within 7-6 with three minutes left in the game. Harvard did this in uncomfortable heat and against the nation's top-ranked team...
...Pull My Daisy--Brattle Theater...
...expressed his reluctance to take over, saying a "younger man" ought to get the job. Party insiders contend that Ito fears he will not be given sufficient independence. Already, a back-room struggle is under way as Takeshita and his supporters maneuver to ensure that they will continue to pull the strings. To pick someone other than a senior politician like Ito would be nothing short of revolutionary...
...sweepstakes is the increasing desperation with which orchestras pursue the same handful of podium personalities. It is | not that there are too few good conductors, but that there are so few who meet the economic requirements: a hefty recording contract, a telegenic personality and the ability to pull in a crowd both at home and on the road. In the U.S. a conductor must also subject himself (there are no women on the short list) to endless rounds of glad-handing and fund raising, while in Berlin he must have the political skills of a Franz von Papen to deal...