Word: pulling
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Starbucks plans to roll out a new espresso machine, the Mastrena, which is half a foot shorter than the current Verismo model and will let customers more easily see baristas making drinks. The new machine also gives baristas more freedom to pull different sorts of shots - such as a ristretto (which takes less water) and a long shot (which takes more) - and to more closely control the process of steaming milk...
...Audiences will get to see the fruits of that process on Easter weekend, when the BBC/HBO-produced No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency airs in the U.K. It could pull in the largest British audience for a Minghella film in a long while. But Minghella will never know. The screenwriter and filmmaker died from a hemorrhage on March...
...says Senor, who is currently writing a book about the Middle East. “Even our biggest critics inside Iraq don’t want us to leave, and so there’s nothing to me so short-sighted or maddening than the notion that we should pull...
...might provide an opening for Clinton. Florida's Democratic chairwoman Karen Thurman floated the notion of holding a new election that would meet the national rules by having the re-vote primarily through mail-in ballots. But many key state leaders opposed the method as unfair and impossible to pull off by a June deadline. Thurman herself acknowledged as much when she introduced the plan, and on Monday she pulled the plug...
...massive political demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, which were brutally put down by Chinese military troops. But the issue, at bottom, was the same: how to respond? And here, China may well understand that 1989 was a long time ago. Beijing in those days could literally pull the plug on CNN and Dan Rather and then thumb its nose at the rest of the world. "It couldn't do that today even if it wanted to, and I don't think it does," the senior diplomat says...