Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's remarkable about the United Auto Workers' decision to pull out is just how long it was in coming. The UAW has not had any significant support base at Harvard since the HUCTW split from its ranks to form an independent union two years ago. While the mostly volunteer HUCTW organizers have been holding frequent meetings with employees, the all-paid UAW staffers have been largely invisible...
...three Nick Branca goals, Harvard put together a 6-0 run to pull the game out of the fire...
...wrestlers get tense. He speaks into the microphone. He tells the competitors that there will be an hour break so they can go outside to watch the "Teenie Weenie Bikini" contest by the pool. Someone in the audience yells, "No!" Someone else yells, "Lock up!" A third: "Pull! Pull!" Now everyone is chanting, "Pull! Pull! Pull!" Keith smiles, shrugs and calls two competitors onstage, Ray Taglione and Joe Elmizadeh...
Like a priest giving a blessing, the skinny referee cups both his hands over the two arm wrestlers' locked hands. "Ready!" he says. Ray and Joe tense up. "Go!" the referee says. The audience erupts into shouts and cheers -- "Pull him! Pull him! Slam him! Slam him!" -- as Ray Taglione, a stockbroker, and Joe Elmizadeh, a garage mechanic, pour every bit of strength in their bodies into their clasped hands...
...about $250 billion. Economists across a broad spectrum of ideological positions warn almost with one voice that this situation is precarious in the extreme. Foreigners will not continue forever to finance American profligacy, and the stock-market crash was a relatively mild foretaste of what could happen if they pull their money out. The nation would then face a grim choice of financing the deficit by ruinous printing-press inflation or a sudden, brutal cutback in spending that might trigger a real economic bust...