Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regime flatly ordered striking government employees to return to work by Oct. 3 or face dismissal, hardly the sign of an accommodating approach by the country's new rulers. For another, Saw Maung, 59, is a faithful follower of Ne Win, 78, who is strongly suspected of continuing to pull the strings behind the scenes ever since his resignation last July. The Burmese have not forgotten that Ne Win also promised elections, soon after he seized power in a 1962 coup, and that he never delivered on the commitment...
...didn't play much as a team," said junior Lee Polikoff. "We have the skills; we need to pull together as one and start playing...
...slept-walked through the first match," Harvard Coach Wayne Lem said. "We spotted them two games, then we decided that we would try and win the match. We won the next two sets, but we couldn't pull out the fifth...
...months later Gorbachev came to power. The most significant act of his tenure has been his decision to pull the Soviet army out of Afghanistan. To hear some enthusiasts for the Reagan Doctrine tell it, Gorbachev was merely yielding to vigorous and effective containment: the U.S. gave Stinger missiles to the Afghan freedom fighters, enabling them to blow enough Soviet helicopters out of the sky for the pragmatic new man in the Kremlin to order a tactical retreat...
...like a stomped melon. After surveying the day-after damage, Seaga declared that the impoverished island's economic expansion, percolating at 5% last year, had been set back a decade. That estimate may have been unduly pessimistic, but not by much. Most visibly, the glossy hotels and clubs that pull in the island's tourist trade were left a shambles, especially in the popular north-coast resort areas of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios. The banana crop, which was expected to produce a banner 50,000- ton harvest this year (up from just 10,000 tons in 1984), was largely...