Word: pulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that "Everyone who lives and works here should pay their fair share." Raising taxes for those who can't vote might be a canny political move, but economically it may backfire. The Treasury reckons some 3,000 registered nondoms - out of a total of 115,000 - will pull up stakes when the new rule kicks in on April 6. Britain's wealth managers are more pessimistic, predicting that nondoms will leave in droves, taking billions out of the economy and affecting everything from property prices to spending on luxury goods. The annual fee isn't official...
...keep her team in the game, and Northeastern remained within one goal of the Crimson until 18:40 into the final period. But in the end Harvard (20-1-0, 16-0-0) affirmed its top dog status, holding off the Huskies (5-16-3, 4-8-1) to pull out a 3-1 victory at Boston University’s Walter Brown Arena...
...nice to pull away a bit there,” Brine said...
...Mitt Romney [AK, CO, MA, MN, MT, ND, UT] failed to impress almost anyone, with wins in Massachusetts, Utah and a few other places he could not have conceivably lost. He vowed to stay in the race, but with Huckabee continuing to pull conservatives out of his column, the businessman may soon have to reevaluate his investment...
Down on the trading floor, eight hands suddenly reach for the whiteboard to trade shares of the al-Basra Bank, and then a moment later pull back. A female trader has just walked along the front of the room in elegant black boots and gold necklaces, chatting into her cell phone, pausing momentarily to scribble numbers in black marker on the wall...