Word: tugged
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there were domestic political pressures at play as well. The White House was keen to show that Bush was in charge, setting the tone, weighing the options. Cheney would spend the week conspicuously busy on Capitol Hill, worrying about the budget. As for Rumsfeld and Powell, now playing tug-of-war with their second generation of Bush Presidents, it was the more moderate Powell who had the lead. "It's our air crew?they are military people," Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley said. "But if you think of a military solution to this, that's not the way ahead...
...personalities will largely sway their choices. But once the ballots are totted up, the results will be viewed as a key barometer of next year's legislative and presidential elections. And though the local contests have no direct bearing on national politics, their outcomes will inevitably affect the tug-of-war between Gaullist President Jacques Chirac and Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, likely rivals in the May 2002 presidential race...
...education tug-of-war begin...
Perhaps that prepared him for the tug of wills on the Crouching Tiger set. Lee is as stubborn as he is gentle, adamant about putting on film the beautiful stunts he had dreamed of since childhood. Yuen had to play the stern adult. "Ang would say he didn't want to shoot things Wo-ping's way because it was an Ang Lee movie," Chow recalls. "But his ideas couldn't be worked out. Finally, he'd go to Wo-ping and say, 'Master, I'm wrong. Let's do it your way.'" At least Lee convinced Yuen...
...essayist Edward Hoagland, in a splendid piece called "Dogs and the Tug of Life," mentions that the dog's sense of smell is at least a hundred times as keen as a man's. He goes on to become somewhat personal: "The way in which a dog presents his anus and genitals for inspection indicates the hierarchical position that he aspires to, and other dogs who sniff his genitals are apprised of his sexual condition. From his urine they can undoubtedly distinguish age, build, state of sexual activity and general health, even hours after he's passed...