Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Detroit, where the fuzz's lot is mostly scuzz, looks wonderingly around. "This is the cleanest and nicest police car I've ever been in in my life," he murmurs. "This thing's nicer than my apartment." Very politely he requests the arresting officers to pull over if they just happen to spot any movie stars on the way to the station house...
MORE THAN THE other cast members or the director, he appears to understand that Pinter's dialogue is significant for its superficiality, for what it doesn't say. He is the only member of the play's trio to pull off the line "How are you doing?" with just the proper lack of conviction...
...that their pension increases would be modified downward. Farm lobbies screamed over the possibility that subsidies would be hacked. Education groups rallied against the hint that Reagan would try again to eliminate the Department of Education. "The best thing to do," declared a member of the Business Roundtable, "is pull up a chair and watch the poker game." It is some game...
...Thatcher government denies that the announcement is the result of U.S. pressure. The Prime Minister, said a senior British official, "has been fuming about this for months and didn't need any prodding by anyone." If both the U.S. and Britain pull out, UNESCO will lose nearly 30% of its annual operating budget...
Most of the cutbacks have come from regional banks that can afford to pull out because their stakes are small. The bigger banks, by contrast, are in so deep that they have no choice but to keep on lending. If they were to demand repayment, the economies of Latin America would deteriorate and defaults might result. Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist at Morgan Guaranty, projects that U.S. bank loans to developing countries will rise by about 5% annually during the next few years...