Word: tugged
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...deeper level, the McCain years would see a constant tug-of-war between the President's pragmatic head and his instinctive, idealistic heart. His impulse to denounce pork barrelers - "I will make them famous," he likes to promise - would compete with his need to curry favor with as many allies in Washington as he can find. His desire to leave a mark on history - by signing a Democratic energy bill or health-care-reform bill, say - would clash with his gut-level identification with the gop. Washington veterans agree that McCain's conservative ideas for tax cuts and health-care...
...weekend tug-of-war was a reminder that Washington has all sorts of agencies that hum along unnoticed in good times but can become pivotal in a crisis. When that happens, the real fighting begins. In this case, the war between small depositors who have managed their money carefully and large, institutional banks that have gambled and lost is playing out across the American economy. So far, Bair has worried about Main Street while working overtime to limit the damage on Wall Street. In the past month, she's overseen the "resolution" (meaning, in a banker's lexicon, the "failure...
Caught in between four countries and sixty years of conflict, the disputed territory of the Golan Heights seems closer than ever to a permanent resolution, after decades of tug-of-war between Israel and Syria over its rightful ownership. Israel's new Prime Minister, Tzipi Livni, has expressed a commitment to resolving the Golan issue once and for all, while outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert mentioned the impossibility of ever hoping for peace with the Syrians without giving up the Golan Heights in a recent interview...
...Enter Reagan. His vision of the future was the past. He offered the temporal pleasures of tax cuts and an unambiguous anticommunism, but his real tug was on the heartstrings - it was "Morning in America." The Republican Party of Wall Street faded before the power of nostalgia for Main Street ... at least a Main Street that existed before America began losing wars, became ostentatiously sexy and casually interracial. In his presidential debate with Jimmy Carter, Reagan talked about an America that existed "when I was young and when this country didn't even know it had a racial problem...
...every hand check is a federal offense. So Argentina's strategy was clear: knock the Americans to the floor early and often. In the first quarter, Argentina's Luis Scola, a 6-ft, 9-in. 230 lb. center, gave America's Dwight Howard a good tug. The 6-ft,. 11-in., 265 lb. Howard makes Mr. Universe look bony, so he didn't fall. But the refs swallowed the whistle, inviting more contact...