Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoke cleared, there was a sense that the disaster need not have been so enormous, the chaos so complete. For almost an hour after the fire erupted, trains continued to pull into King's Cross, some still discharging passengers. Confused station workers directed several passengers onto an escalator that headed directly into the blaze. "The ceiling above was on fire and debris was falling down, but the escalator was still moving," complained Passenger Andrew Lea, who was able to get off the death belt...
Soon after arriving in Evanston, Gephardt leaped from drama to campus politics. Known then as Rich, he wore trousers with razor-sharp creases, was a preciously good speaker and even knew how to pull cub reporters aside at student senate meetings to explain the complicated goings-on. Friends kidded the student-body president about combing his hair down over his forehead in the style of John Kennedy. A college sweetheart recalls that the constant comparisons had an effect on Gephardt. "It was hard to look that much like J.F.K. and not talk of the presidency," she says...
...movement was highly successful. It did not bring down apartheid, but many universities, including Harvard, divested from companies that did business in South Africa. Many companies did, in fact, pull out of South Africa. The U.S. Congress imposed economic sanctions, and many state legislatures divested pension funds...
...Eastern unless it restructures its labor costs. Eastern has laid out a game plan that makes obvious sense, not one that will win a popularity contest among unionized employees. But it happens to work. When you're losing the kind of money Eastern is, you don't grow. You pull back...
...following a policy that spotlights the serious shortcomings of its stance toward South Africa-related investments. The Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility's recent annual report announces a plan to ask companies considering leaving South Africa to describe measures they will take to protect Black workers' rights after they pull out. The scrutiny, Harvard officials said, may lead to divestment from companies departing South Africa if those companies fail to make certain provisions to guarantee Black workers' rights...