Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lehman Brothers has been roiling. A split over management and pay policies developed between its investment bankers, who manage the firm's traditional corporate business, and its traders, who buy and sell stocks and bonds. Three key banking partners have left, and others have reportedly been threatening to pull out. The remaining partners feared that more defections might...
...charismatic team, be it is baseball or box lacrosse, can pull a city or a region together in shared suffering and joy. Part of a New Englander's character is the wary pessimism engendered by watching too many talented Red Sox teams crumple in September. The words "No Pitching' ought to be carved on every Sox fan's tombstone. When the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series in 1979, it was exciting to watch the largely whit, working-class city embrace its largely Black and Hispanic team while the stadium speakers blasted the Pirates' theme song. "We Are Family...
Harvard, again capitalizing on a Jumbo mishap which this time proved to be fatal, got the run it needed to pull out the squeaker in the top of the ninth...
...better time. They turned, displaying their perfect techniques with their arms up, down always creating more tension. The dance itself was mainly modern, but a lot of good Jazz technique was mixed in with head rolls and hip swings, adding an interesting aspect to the slow moving push-pull stretch experience of the entire piece...
That impression was heightened a fortnight ago, TIME has learned, by a testy telephone conversation between Marchais and Premier Pierre Mauroy. Marchais threatened to pull out of the government because two 1983 mayoral elections, won by Communists, were being investigated for campaign irregularities. Mauroy pleaded that the government was powerless; the Council of State, which rules on such matters, is independent and nonpartisan. Marchais, however, was in no mood to listen. The Communists have lost eleven by-elections since the municipal balloting last year, and under Marchais their share of the national vote dropped from...