Word: pulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...international outcry that Israel was imposing a collective punishment on Gazans for having backed Hamas in last January's free elections. It is almost certain that President Abbas, despite his loathing of Hamas, would walk away from U.S. sponsored peace talks with the Israelis in protest. Hamas might also pull out longer-range missiles from its arsenal, able to strike as far as the Israeli port of Ashkelon...
...hour week, we've heard discussion about purchasing power, not about salaries," Sarkozy said - rebuffing the business leaders' frequent retort that purchasing power is mostly an old union chestnut to justify demands for pay hikes. "Explaining there's no problem of purchasing power in France is trying to pull the public's leg... I expect you to negotiate on salaries...
...from more respectable venues, like The New York Times and the Philadelphia (not the National) Inquirer, were past masters at the fine craft of attention-grabbing. A headline like "Bloody Statue of Mother Teresa Has PMS!" would be topped by the deck "Vatican Experts Confirm:" and explained by the pull quote "After the blood stops, she gets grumpy." Those are teasers that should be taught in J school...
...They introduced advance ticket sales in 1993 - do you miss the lines? It became a ritual: you'd bring your coffee and your food, pull out your book and start reading about movies. [But] I don't miss the lines...
...fact that recognizing and acknowledging a familiar person is such a complex thing made it all the more remarkable in early August when scientists announced that a 38-year-old man had managed to pull it off. The man, whose identity was withheld, had suffered severe brain damage in a 1999 mugging and spent the past eight years in the dark cognitive well that neuroscientists call a minimally conscious state. Improbably, however, he can now greet both his parents. He can identify objects, hold very brief conversations and watch movies, and he recently recited the first 16 words...