Word: tugged
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...Berman, the decision to spend more time in Europe is the latest pull in a personal tug-of-war between finance and foreign language...
Since the internet was born, there has been a tug-of-war between aggregating information and finding ways to navigate through it. Two of the great navigation milestones were the Web browser and the search engine. Now, with the galloping growth of blogs (some 80,000 new blogs are created every day, according to blog search engine Technorati) and the proliferation of social-network sites, a growing group of companies is trying to figure out how to turn the cacophony of personalized information into usable form - and viable businesses. They call it the Shared, Trust or Referral Economy...
...South Pacific, however, there remain tribes that are the last links to that changeless way of life, some making contact with the outside world for the first time last century; and there are many for whom the traditions of their ancestors are vibrantly alive. Yet in the cultural tug-of-war, the pull of modernity is powerful and relentless, and though some dig in their heels, the ties to tradition are beginning to fray...
...experience the work vs. personal life tug that Samantha does in the book...
...from a gaping hole behind its sail, or vertical superstructure, where a hatch covering one of the 16 missile-launching tubes had been located. Said Defense Department Spokesman Commander Robert Prucha after examining photos: "The hatch was peeled back like a sardine can." But when the nearby U.S. oceangoing tug Powhatan offered assistance, the sub declined, requesting that the tug "stand clear...