Word: tugged
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...sail down the Charles. Cocktail attire is a required, but an accent is optional. Fri., Sept. 28 at 10 p.m. 60 Rowes Wharf, Boston Harbor. $15/single, $25/couple. 5) I Wear My Sunglasses At Night… Just like ZZ Top! Admit it. You’ve always wanted to tug those beards just to make sure it’s real. Rush the stage at the Bank of America Pavilion and get up close and personal with the iconic Southern rock band. Don’t forget your shades. Sat., Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. The Bank of American...
...Michigan Sen. Carl Levin and Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed certainly hope so. In this week's congressional tug-of-war over Iraq policy, their amendment to the defense spending bill - the latest version of one they've introduced four times before - has the best chance of ultimately winning the 60 votes required to give it a fuller Senate consideration. Finding 60 votes this time around is unlikely. But it is steadily gaining support...
...hotel, says Brendan Gold, T&G's national secretary for civil air transport, "serious negotiations were done." Ahead of BA's move next year into the new $8.5 billion Heathrow Terminal 5, the airline persuaded thousands of ground staff to agree to change their practices. So, while an aircraft tug driver used to leave work before the end of his shift if he had completed his list of tasks, staff at the new terminal will return to their base after each individual job before being assigned another. Such deals, Walsh says, are "evidence of securing agreement without hassle, without friction...
...said carrying off the biggest banking deal in history would be easy, but the ongoing, three month-long tug of war for ABN Amro trumps most takeover bids for drama. While rival European lenders have swooped for the Dutch bank in recent months, activist shareholders and even the Dutch courts have intervened in a drawn out saga offering no shortage of twists and turns...
...three friends who left Iraq for London during Saddam Hussein's rule. All are Westernized, middle-class professionals, with a penchant for whisky and a preference for quoting Martin Amis over the Koran. Oscillating between Baghdad and London in the years 1998 and 2005, the play skillfully dramatizes the tug between two locations and two states of mind in the central character of Salim, a bisexual doctor who has just penned a controversial novel entitled Masturbating Angels, partially in rebellion against his Iraqi heritage. Though initially in favor of the invasion, Salim returns to Iraq with his friends...