Word: pulling
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...instead, I'll sit back and appreciate P.D.'s sartorial splendor, L.S.'s enthusiasm, N.W.'s bite, and Jet's ability to pull off a princess...
...Qingdao wouldn't mark the first time that debris-strewn seas have plagued Olympic water sports. Windsurfers complained of seaweed and pollution before the Barcelona Games in 1992. Still, Qingdao's green waters have triggered a massive official response. Gao says the cleaning teams have used boats to pull 100,000 tons of the seaweed from the water. Nets have been extended 40 to 50 miles into the ocean to contain the inflow, and four helicopters have been dispatched to direct clean-up boats. At the environmental monitoring center, employees have been working around the clock for the past four...
...however, Tancredo's talk is just that. And the fact that an immigration hardliner like Tancredo plans to pull the lever for McCain suggests that the Republican immigration backlash he threatens may not materialize this fall...
...formed part of the majority in the other high-profile cases: voter ID, the lethal injection decision, Exxon and the child pornography ruling. By contrast, several prominent decisions this year did not go Roberts' way, most notably Guantanamo Bay and the child rape case. "If Roberts is trying to pull the court to the right, Kennedy is somewhat of a block," adds Epstein. "I think it is still not the court that Roberts or conservative Republicans want yet, and if that's the case it's because of Kennedy...
...rising fuel costs." Waldrop says he doesn't blame manufacturers for taking the step to protect their bottom lines, but says the food companies should be honest with their customers about it. "If they're transparent and open, consumers are less willing to think [manufacturers] are trying to pull one over on them," says Waldrop. The changing product sizes are part of the reason the Bureau of Labor Statistics says groceries cost 5.8% more than the same time last year. Price checkers in the department measure more than 2,000 food items to determine overall food inflation, and when they...