Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday, Princeton continued to Pull away from the rest of the field ammassing 430 point in two days. The Crimson clings to second place after day two with 253.5 176.2 behind the high-flying Tigers...
...current Minister of Defense and the patriarch of a poor but prestigious family. Having recently had a heart attack, Sir Robert is more dead than alive, surviving only with the aid of various life-support machines. Lady Charles has decided to put him out of his misery and pull the plug--much to the pleasure of heir apparent Hugo and his twin sister, Annabel. Planning ahead, the family has placed him in a coffin right in the middle of the Charles estate drawing room. The youngest son Nigel arrives from Oxford as does the dim-witted nanny Kitty...
...dollar keeps diving, it could pull several of the world's major economies down with it. That realization was behind the urgent meeting in Paris over the weekend of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven -- the U.S., West Germany, Japan, Britain, France, Italy and Canada -- to discuss ways of moderating currency swings. For the U.S., another goal of the session was to persuade Japan and West Germany to stimulate their economies. That would boost their imports of American products and help ease the U.S. trade deficit, which reached a record $170 billion last year. Higher exports...
...Panama to the south, and with Honduras, El Salvador and ultimately Mexico to the north. That the Sandinista revolution is without frontiers is not a hypothetical notion. It is historical. In the first years of their rule the Sandinistas poured considerable effort into the Salvadoran insurgency, which hoped to pull off a victory before the inauguration of Ronald Reagan. That attempt failed, but not for lack of trying. The Sandinistas have been more restrained in their support of the Salvadoran guerrillas during the Reagan Administration, not because of a change of heart but as a direct result of the military...
...fresh water. Each time a ship passes through the canal, some 52 million gallons must be pumped into the locks and then, after the ship has passed, flushed out to sea. "The locks are like giant water closets," explains an official of the Panama Canal Commission. "Once you pull the chain, you never see the water again...