Word: pulling
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...smarter consideration of this topic see the late David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider the Lobster.) And they have a funny mirrors-within-mirrors, mise-en-abyme effect: they pull back the smooth glossy surface of familiar images and show us the rough, grainy verso. Despite being outside the boundaries of anything remotely resembling literary quality, Moore's book delivers on both counts...
...deflating fast, hurting Ireland's outsized construction sector. Factor in soaring unemployment, weaker consumer spending and the gummed-up credit markets, and Ireland is facing "the most challenging fiscal and economic position in a generation," Finance Minister Brian Lenihan told parliament on Oct. 14. "We must all pull together if we are to return to more prosperous times...
...people in the rest of the world lack. But if you live on the right kind of land, you can dig your own well - as more than 17 million Americans currently do. The process is simple - dig a hole into the ground and get a pump that will pull out the water. Generally the deeper you drill, the better the water - but the cost can range from $3,000 to $15,000 depending on how far down you go. If you want to go cheaper, you can also build a cistern to collect rainwater - but you should avoid this choice...
...ball to the setter, so the setter was up in the box and had two options: she could set it up to the four or to the nine.”Never looking back, the Tigers held the lead the entire game and their 15 kills allowed them to pull away 25-13.“Something that’s always happened with our team is that we’ve given them a couple of games and then we don’t stop them right at that first game,” McKinley said...
...their own. The package proposes to do this by, among other things, cutting taxes and abolishing existing limits on commercial banks' credit-lending. The plan also advances the government's oft stated desire to improve living conditions in the countryside, where residents earn about a third of what urbanites pull in - a situation Beijing rightly considers a threat to the country's social stability...