Word: pull
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...more. With so many companies hiring so many people and paying so many of them in equity, Techtopia has begun to draw, like the gravitational pull of the moon, from government and K Street out to Virginia. "There has been a fundamental psychic shift in favor of entrepreneurship," says businessman Morino, who runs a well-known incubator for start...
...prudence and individual enterprise. I think it's also because he came of age during Republican Administrations, ending up Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Besides, to a military man, Democrats are just too disorderly. The parties may be sounding alike, but Democrats will never be able to pull off a convention where the delegates are in their seats by 8 p.m. and cheer on command (8:04: applause for 30 sec.). Republicans acted out only once, when a handful of Texans bowed their heads in prayerful protest during a gay Congressman's speech on trade...
When Woods phoned his coach, Butch Harmon, after the 1997 Masters and told him he wanted to rebuild his swing, Harmon was confident his star pupil could pull it off. But he cautioned that results wouldn't come overnight--that Woods would have to pump more iron to get stronger, especially in his forearms; that it would take months to groove the new swing; that his tournament performance would get worse before it got better. Both men were aware of how such an apparent slump would be depicted by some golf commentators and fellow pros jealous of Woods' early success...
...close-and-personal moment next month with Don Smith, America's lone and somewhat improbable entry in the Olympic men's sculling competition, is if all 120 or so members of the U.S. track-and-field team--as well as the gymnasts and the swimmers and the beach volleyballers--pull their hammies. Nike scolds us in its ads for paying attention to Mercedes-driving star runners just once every four years, but for elite rowers like Smith, most of whom live a post-collegiate, hand-to-mouth existence well into their 30s, being ignored by the sporting public...
...this week of national media exposure, has adopted most of Ross Perot's platform and won the support of most of the Texas billionaire's supporters. He plans to merge his current presidential candidacy with the Natural Law party with the Reform banner, rise above the current fray and pull a Jesse Ventura on an American electorate that he says is thirsting for an alternative. His running mate: Nat Goldhaber, multimillionaire founder and former CEO of dot-com Cybergold, Inc. (Goldhaber, by the way has been diplomatically sidestepping questions about whether he will use some of his own money...