Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weapons too. The Kremlin last week in effect agreed to resume the START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) and INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) negotiations that it broke off at the end of 1983, when the NATO missile deployment began. Moscow had long insisted that the U.S. would have to pull the missiles out as a precondition for new talks, but Gromyko made no such demand last week. Shultz did not even have to defend the U.S. plan to begin testing an ASAT system this spring. Gromyko had been expected to repeat a Soviet demand of last summer that...
...whistles were more to his liking in the second period, despite Carrabino picking up his fourth foul. Would he pull the Ivy player of the year? "Why take him out? I told the other guys, you gotta help Joe in the lane...
...course, wives have pull with husbands. In the Reagans' case, her impact & may be greater because the bond is stronger. After 33 years together, they are, by all accounts, rapturously fond of each other. "She has always had more influence than people generally realize," says Michael Deaver, the departing White House deputy chief of staff and long her principal ally in the Administration. Even when she does not make her position known on an issue, Administration officials have learned to anticipate her potential support or opposition and proceed accordingly. "The threat of her influence," says one White House aide...
...resulting lineup, faced with a fiery, physical Dartmouth offense, just couldn't pull the contest out, even when Pat Smith returned in place of Daugherty. But they certainly did try. Like the j.v. they just kept working...
...Piscopo, Murphy's partner for 3 1/2 years on Saturday Night Live, says that "Eddie is actually playing himself on-screen. He manages to be totally natural and relaxed. I'd also like him to try something more serious, though, something with Scorcese or Coppola. I know he can pull it off, but I'm not sure he does...