Word: yanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SHANE SPENCER Young Yank out-homering Big Mac. An immortal? Who cares? This is a sweet spot in time...
...years ago, Duke brought in a sales-minded Texan to yank it into the new era. Alvis Swinney, vice chancellor of business development and marketing, works on everything from pricing strategies to focus-group studies of how people choose a hospital. But he's also known for wandering the medical center and advising doctors to upgrade their waiting rooms...
...Yank. (Irabu 11-9) at T.B. (Santana...
...that a powerful network of whites leaped to his defense. Radio talk show host Don Imus, NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen and CNN's Larry King minimized the seriousness of Barnicle's transgressions. Staples, the big office-supply chain, hinted that it might yank its advertising if Barnicle left the Globe. The pressure gave Barnicle time to make his case for leniency and moved Storin to find a face-saving way to back down...
...badly does Congress want to nix a national ID card? Not very. Late in the evening last Wednesday, Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) tried to yank spending for a Department of Transportation ID card proposal that would compel states to encode Social Security numbers (and possibly digitized fingerprints) into driver's licenses. Barr's ploy didn't work. Democrats defended the plan as a way to let immigrants prove they're citizens. Other Republicans suggested Barr try to forge a compromise with transportation bureaucrats, which he'll do in a meeting this week...