Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW: Mir, Russia's overworked and underfinanced space station, may be landing near you soon. Russian space officials, desperately short on cash, admit that they may have to pull the plug (this time deliberately) on the station as early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman Anatoly Tkachyov, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending...
WASHINGTON: Frustrated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to accept a U.S. proposal for Israel to withdraw from 13 percent of the West Bank, aides to President Clinton say Washington may soon pull out of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. "We would tell them, 'You're on your own,'" says a senior White House staff member. But the problem for Clinton is how to make good on that threat yet avoid getting hammered at home...
...will try to keep Kosovo's violence from spilling into their country. Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia who has spent considerable time with Milosevic in past negotiations, joins Holbrooke's shuttle. The envoys already conclude that the best Holbrooke might finagle from Milosevic is an agreement to pull some forces out of Kosovo, but Holbrooke must also persuade the Kosovar rebels to stop their advances. Concessions won't come easily from them either...
...company's most important customers, suppliers and competitors are. Yet I find that many investors don't have a clue. One guy might have Ford on his stock-shopping list because he likes his Explorer and sees his local dealer moving lots of iron. Then he sees Ford stock pull back hugely on Monday, and his mouth waters. But did he consider that Ford's business plan could be derailed by a weakened yen, which amounts to a giant coupon for discounts on Japanese cars? Or did he not think about it and just hope to get lucky...
...attempts to hide the true cost of the discounted Internet hookups, the intended beneficiaries of the e-rate program are told to wait to hear if their applications for funding have been approved. This program comes at too high a price. It's time for Congress to pull the plug on the FCC's shell game. FAYE M. ANDERSON, President Douglass Policy Institute Washington...