Word: pulling
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Even worse, the fledgling democrats cannot seem to pull themselves together. Yeltsin last week urged the splintered, squabbling opposition factions to form a single, pro-democracy party. But Yuri Afanasyev, a leader of the liberal Inter-Regional Group of Deputies in the Parliament, opposed the idea. Putting everyone into the same party, he argued, was a Bolshevik approach. "It is better for us to agree on something fundamental," he said, "rather than join something anonymous and faceless...
...have it today.” Harvard finally broke through against Brown starter James Cramphin in the late innings. Through six frames, Cramphin had struck out 10—he finished with 12 strikeouts—and permitted just a single run. But sophomore Matt Rogers pulled the Crimson within one with a two-run homer in the top of the seventh, and Vance gave the team the lead with a two-run double later in the inning. Vance drove in another pair of runs off a tired Cramphin in the top of the eighth with a single to center...
...Stephanie Krysiak executed a double steal of home and second, respectively, and Krysiak came around to score on a bloop single to center by Kidder.Murphy added an RBI single in the fifth for the third and final run.HARVARD 6, BROWN 1Timely two-out hitting allowed the Crimson to slowly pull away from Brown as it completed the afternoon sweep on Saturday.In each inning from the second to the fifth, Harvard got a run-scoring hit with two outsm as it pulled out to a 4-0 lead.Watkins held the lead on the mound. She went six strong innings, allowing just...
...purists, who for years have griped that the DH rule, which was instituted in 1973 to spark sagging American League offenses, takes much of the strategy out of the national pastime. The usual complaint has been that with the DH, managers didn't have to pick pinch hitters, or pull off slick double switches. For years it was the home of all-or-nothing strikeout kings too bulky to play the field - think Greg "The Bull" Luzinski, the DH for the Chicago White Sox in the early 1980s, or Reggie Jackson late in his career...
...Bayrou's campaign headquarters after the first round results came in. "But in terms of economic policy, Sarkozy is closer to Bayrou." And like everyone else looking on in France now, Benazet says it's now clear this campaign will be won at the center - though who will pull that off is still anyone's guess...