Word: yanked
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Such an assault on Syria's client state Lebanon would enrage Damascus. To which the view in the Administration seems to be, Too bad. Even some officials who are privately dismissive of the neoconservative agenda seem prepared to yank the chain of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom they consider a disappointing, feeble reformer who has failed to rein in his own security forces. U.S. intelligence believes Syria allowed men and materiel--including night-vision goggles--to cross its border and join Saddam's forces during the war. When asked last week what he would do if Saddam's weapons...
...begins the New Year eyeball to eyeball with a paranoid, ruthless regime hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weapons to complement an army the Pentagon rates among the most formidable in the world. And so, despite their stoic miens, White House officials are grasping for some way to yank North Korea back from the precipice and return everyone's focus to that other spoke in the axis of evil, Iraq. "Is it a distraction?" says a White House official. "Yes. It's a serious issue. Does it change what we're doing on Iraq...
...months because of a new short-range radio technology called Bluetooth that's built into some of the newer-model phones. The headsets offer more freedom than their corded counterparts by letting you stray up to 30 feet from your phone without being encumbered by a cable that might yank on your ear or get caught on your coat buttons...
...voters recognize his name, a plus in a state where advertising is pricey; and his G.O.P. opponent, businessman Douglas Forrester, loses his greatest distinction--not being Torricelli. By week's end, Republicans were muttering that they should try this gambit too--yank Forrester and stick a proven pro like Christie Todd Whitman into the race...
...voters recognize his name, a plus in a state where advertising is pricey; and his G.O.P. opponent, businessman Douglas Forrester, loses his greatest distinction - not being Torricelli. By week's end, Republicans were muttering that they should try this gambit too - yank Forrester and stick a proven pro like Christie Todd Whitman into the race...