Word: pulling
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...October. In November, New York?based Genco Shipping and Trading wrote off a $53 million deposit in order to get out of a $530 million deal to buy six new vessels, freeing up liquidity and strengthening the firm's "ability to act opportunistically," a Genco spokesman said. As companies pull back to protect their bottom lines, many are simply taking ships out of service, says Kriton Lendoudis, managing director of Athens-based Evalend Shipping. Hundreds of vessels have been laid up off Britain, Germany, Greece and Singapore over the past several months. In the River Fal estuary, near...
Space dust, magnetic storms, solar winds and the Earth's atmosphere all create drag, which slows down the planet. Even the amount of snow covering the polar ice caps adds to the rotational lag. But one of the main obstacles is tidal friction. Because the gravitational pull between the moon and the Earth is not uniform, the tidal force stretches the Earth - core, mantle, crust, oceans and all - producing bulges. The Earth's rotation pushes the tidal bulge slightly ahead of the Earth-moon alignment; the moon's gravity, however, yanks the bulges back to keep them in line. This...
...power-play goal—the Crimson went 1-for-4 on the power-play for the game—marked the only time the team scored.Harvard’s stinginess on the power-play could not stop UAH from using the man-advantage to pull away in the third. Kevin Morrison struck for the Chargers only power-play goal of the evening at 5:30 to make the score 3-0. The game also marked junior John Riley’s first collegiate start in goal. Riley finished the night with 25 saves. Though challenged in the first...
...When a father doesn't have enough money for his three daughters' dowries, dooming them, apparently, to forced prostitution, Nicholas leaves three bags of gold outside the girls' home (or, according to a different version of the story, in their shoes) to keep them from having to pull an Ashley Alexandra Dupré. This is one of the few stories based on some sort of historical record and it explains Nicholas' reputation as a gift-giver...
...Clement Clark Moore writes a poem for his children, beginning with the iconic lines, "'Twas the night before Christmas." Within one reading, Nicholas shortens his name to Nick, gains weight, starts smoking and adopts seven more reindeer (probably to pull his excess weight). He embarks on his first breaking-and-entering spree...