Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seat, the horizontal force was at least five Gs (five times that of gravity), making it impossible for me to fasten my seat belt . . . Then it eased up a bit to maybe one or two Gs. But the plane was continuing downward. Clearly the pilot was trying to pull up, but I didn't know how on earth he could do it. It was like being in a high-speed Porsche on an incredible turn...
...ground open with hunting knives and then cut away the soil an inch at a time. Now the men pass shovelfuls of dirt to Laotian soldiers waiting with sifters, who shake the dirt back and forth. The Americans wrap a winch line around a nearby tree to help pull a piece of rusted metal out of the hard-packed soil. "I don't have any idea what it is," says Navy Lieut. Commander Loren E. Decker Jr., a tall, muscular man standing at the bottom of the deep hole. "It's so mangled, you can't tell...
Israel decided unilaterally in January to pull out of Lebanon because attempts to work out a security agreement with Lebanon had failed. Plans call for a total withdrawal by this summer. Israel's Prime Minister Shimon Peres believes that the continuing occupation serves only to build the Shi'ite resistance and to increase Israeli losses. Those fatalities now total 621, more than 40% of them since the Palestine Liberation Organization was expelled from Beirut in August...
...will not increase the nation's money supply rapidly enough to make it easy for the Government to borrow enough to cover the deficits. Quite the contrary, said Volcker, the board is already reining back on an expansion of the money supply it began last fall to pull the economy out of a brief slowdown. The Commerce Department announced last week that the economy had bounced back and then some, growing at an annual rate of 4.9% in the final quarter of last year, much faster than anticipated...
...THOUGHT WED GO back to my apartment, pull down the shades, take our clothes off, get under the sheets and see what happens." So remarks nice-guy vigilante Jimmy Lynch (Timothy Hutton) to his would-be girlfriend Danny Boudreau (Kim Cattrall). Unable to agree on the terms of the aforementioned sexual scenario, they compromise on a trip to Shea Stadium to watch the Mets...