Word: pulling
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...battered reputation and a swamp of lawsuits. You could almost hear the sighs of relief coming from Wall Street - not to mention the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve - that someone had swooped in to prevent the collapse of the nation's largest mortgage lender and whatever else it might pull down in its wake. CreditSights analyst David Hendler called the deal a "rescue bid" that would give the markets some much needed stability. The irresistible headline: MAIN STREET SAVES WALL STREET...
...been born outside Britain; that compared with 34% of New Yorkers who hailed from outside the U.S. that year. Hong Kong, which barely existed 150 years ago, has always been a haven for migrants fleeing trouble in China. Even in these prosperous times for the mainland, it still has pull. (Visitors from the West may find Hong Kong polluted; locals know it has cleaner air than almost all Chinese cities.) And increasingly, it is a magnet also for Chinese whose families have lived for generations in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., as well as for other Asians. Between...
...share elements of atrocity and tragedy, but civil wars can be the most uncivil. Often, such hostilities involve rival ethnic groups, each wanting its own identity and space and, often, these disputes are the most emotional and intractable. So it is with Sri Lanka. Colombo's decision to officially pull out of a 2002 cease-fire agreement with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) was just a confirmation of what Sri Lankans have known for months - war has returned to the strife-torn Indian Ocean island nation...
Fresh off a rout of Dartmouth that started the Ivy season, the Harvard men’s basketball team stayed hot as it pulled away from Colgate at Lavietes Pavilion, coming away with a 77-57 win and wrapping up its non-conference schedule. Strong runs at the end of the first half and mid-way through the second were key as the Raiders (8-6) became the second straight team to fall to the Crimson (6-11, 1-0 Ivy) by more than 20 points, following the home team’s 82-56 win over the Big Green...
...when we needed to.” When Harvard finally did get some momentum, it was by looking inside to Rollins, the team’s best player on the night. Rollins, who scored 16 of her game-high 18 points in the second half, refused to let Dartmouth pull away, making big basket after big basket down the stretch. “They knew we were going in to her and she still found a way to make it happen,” Delaney-Smith said of Rollins. On a night when Hallion and junior Niki Finelli shot...