Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecution witness, James Timothy Hoffman, a former drug dealer and onetime California neighbor of De Lorean's, who helped get De Lorean involved with the undercover agents. The defense will claim that Hoffman enticed De Lorean into the trap and even used threats in warning him not to pull out. The prosecution will argue that De Lorean had freely sought Hoffman's help in acquiring much needed cash from drug sources...
Princeton, which had executed its precision passing game almost flawlessly in the first half, was unable to pull any closer than nine points the remainder...
Scores of professors and academics has not been able to pull the trick...
Name an economic problem, and Harvester had it: labor troubles, skyrocketing interest rates, tough competition from firms with lower costs, and poor management. In 1977 Harvester brought in former Xerox Executive Archie McCardell, and then made him chairman in 1979, to pull it out of its slump; instead, things got worse. McCardell was ousted in the spring of 1982. Donald Lennox, another Xerox alumnus, became boss...
That candidate is Walter F. Mondale. That the liberal electorate in this country is not rushing to his banner is testimony to the power of fabricated images and the ability of his opponents--namely Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo)--to pull a snow job on the American people...