Word: pulling
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...friends spoke ominously of rumors that China's government was planning a crackdown on stock speculation, including a possible tax on capital gains. Over the past 18 months, Chen's small portfolio had almost doubled in value as the Shanghai market shot straight up. So she decided to pull the plug, suddenly afraid it would all go sour. "I sold everything just before the holiday," she says, and was blithely unaware that the Shanghai stock index plunged 8.8% on Feb. 27, its biggest one-day drop in a decade...
...Israel's withdrawal from the disputed Shebaa Farms territory, which he insists "is Lebanese land and they should withdraw from it. I cannot go and ask Hizballah to surrender their arms while my country is still occupied." He wants the U.S. to do more to pressure Israel to pull out, but so far Washington prefers not to add to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's burdens...
CONGRESSMAN JIM MORAN, Virginia Democrat and co-sponsor of a bill requiring labels for all clothes with fur, introduced after the Humane Society discovered manufacturers using dog fur and calling it fake, prompting some retailers to pull items from shelves...
...loss at home, was characteristic of the team’s early-season struggles. The Crimson had opportunities to make the score much closer, but a series of missed chances on offense and mental mistakes—including a rash of penalties--allowed the Bulldogs to pull away, dropping Harvard to 1-6 in the ECAC. “They beat us 5-2, but the score didn’t reflect the game at all,” captain Dylan Reese says. “It was definitely much closer, and I think we should have won the game...
...usual travel provisions: a bottle of water, some Orbit gum, and a newspaper. Then, standing over the shelves of magazines, I gave in to a guilty desire and bought the March issue of Cosmopolitan. Whenever I pick up a copy of Cosmo, my immediate impulse is to pull the magazine close to my chest and to look around to check that no one I know is present to witness the act. This reaction must be a throwback to the grocery store checkout lines of my youth in which my gaze at the magazine’s dirty cover was liable...