Word: pulling
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...bond markets to tremble in recent weeks as investors sold assets to raise cash. This presents a particularly thorny problem for policymakers. Central banks have used special injections of liquidity to prevent key interbank credit lines from seizing up. But the U.S. Federal Reserve has few levers to pull when it comes to the non-bank sector that is at the epicenter of the contraction. Many investors are betting that the Fed will have to do more, including making large cuts in interest rates, to restart credit creation and prevent further damage to the economy. A decade ago, the world...
...resign if parliament did not extend legislation allowing the Japanese navy to refuel American ships supporting military operations in Afghanistan past a Nov. 1 deadline. Abe argued that the DPJ's opposition to the naval commitment would only reinforce Japan's image as an immature global power unwilling to pull its weight. Ozawa retorted that the mission breached the constitution...
...teachers and video games have never been a happy mix. While one side struggles to pull kids off the couch, the other holds them fast. But Kim Mason, a phys-ed director in Rogers, Ark., with 28 years of experience selling kids on the virtues of sweat, did something unlikely last year: she persuaded her public-school district to invest $35,000 in brand-new video-game equipment...
...We’re not trying to pull anything over anybody,” said FAS Manager of Mechanical and Structural Maintenance Larry McNeil. “If these things could power whole buildings we would have installed them years...
...company president--who died at age 49 in 1943--the Edsel was not just a car but a whole division within Ford, created to compete head-to-head with General Motors' Oldsmobile. It was a sales disaster. Two years later, future Ford president Robert McNamara persuaded the board to pull the plug on the Edsel. That's the same McNamara who became President Johnson's Secretary of Defense and refused to recommend withdrawing from Vietnam, even though he knew a lemon when...