Word: pulling
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...something you’ll want to remember. There were not only fruits and vegetables for sale but also frogs, turtles, eels, ducks, chickens with their heads cut off, and exotic items that words can’t do justice.I was strolling through when I saw a vendor pull a live snake from a bag, gut it, and hand it to a paying customer, who then headed to find some fresh onions for his reptilian dinner. There was nothing fake about that moment, and for some reason, I feel much more comfortable in Shanghai having seen it. Chinese beer tastes...
...Where Do We Go from Here? There's no question that the crisis has gone so deep that it cannot be halted by one stroke. Banks and other financial companies around the globe are struggling to pull themselves out of this mess. Rebuilding will take time, vast amounts of money and constant attention. Sooner or later, the hundreds of billions (or trillions) of dollars that the Fed and other central bankers are throwing into the markets will stabilize things. Sooner or later, housing prices will stop falling because no financial trend continues forever...
...time to pull my money out of the bank and put it under the mattress...
...that one opportunity. So it’s great that we actually got those chances.” “We did have the pressure going, we did have the momentum,” Rhodes added. “We just tried to keep that momentum going and pull out the win.”Surprisingly, the extra-time tally was the first goal of the two-time captain’s career in crimson and white. But scoring is nothing new for Rhodes’ classmate Erin Wylie, who got things started up top for Harvard...
...Asian markets took a beating as investors dumped stocks in the wake of the Lehman Bros. collapse and Merrill Lynch buyout, anxiety over U.S. financial companies was still spreading. By mid-afternoon, a crowd of roughly 150 people still swarmed the entrance of AIA Singapore Ltd., many trying to pull out their funds or cancel their insurance policies. They shrugged off the blistering heat - as well as assurances from its general manager Mark O'Dell, that the company has "a strong, well-positioned business in Singapore." With over four thousand agents and two million policies in force in this city...