Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beautiful Amy, Douglas gives an excellent dance performance, but her acting is not convincing. The plot allows her to pull Max toward a career in dancing despite the risk of financial insecurity. Her ability to convey the emotion involved, however, is lacking...
Both teams were marred by sloppy play in the first 10 minutes of the game and it was Ferry's shooting which helped the Blue Devils pull ahead...
...Gielen jumper cut Duke's early edge to 14-11 and after freshman Brian Davis stepped out of bounds, sophomore Dana Smith nailed a 10-ft. jumper to pull the Crimson to within one point...
...Baker is sitting in the seventh-floor Secretary's office at the State Department watching Bush conduct his first press conference as President. "Pull up your tie, George," says Baker affectionately to the TV screen. "And be careful with the F.M.L.N. question." But no one asks about the peace proposal offered by the leftist guerrilla group in El Salvador that calls itself the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, so Baker responds to an imagined query. He has changed course...
George Bush is not opposed to all killing, especially when talk of frying people can help pull him out of the political fire. During the campaign, he scored big points with his tough stance on capital punishment. He supported it on the stump, in the debates, and through anticrime TV ads trumpeting his belief in the death penalty. The ads harped on Michael Dukakis' opposition to capital punishment, a position Dukakis was not shy about proclaiming anyway. The death penalty is a useful issue for any politician who believes that voltage wins votes. It works in a campaign...