Word: pulling
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...There’s a need for this level of visualization,” Lue adds. “One can almost say that I’m a closet film director—there’s drama, pacing, characterization. The idea is to pull you in, to make people say ‘I wanna figure that...
...College’s Safety Committee is investigating ways to eliminate false fire alarms, including educational campaigns and different types of pull stations, Nelson says...
...both stores these days are looking to pull in more younger female customers. Walk into any newly remodeled JCPenney and behold a spiffy new map at the door to ease your shopping and a customer-service desk right at the entrance. Clothes are neatly grouped by lifestyle, trendy denim in one spot, work outfits in another. And they're labeled clearly, unlike in older stores. In early fall, Penney even sponsored the MTV Video Music Awards, running a series of live ads during the broadcast. It's a fairly radical move, given the store's uncool heritage...
...have to be mixed in solution, probably with a gelling agent. "If it was some sort of liquid, it could have been--as in James Bond--a little magic capsule," Clark said. All this implies considerable sophistication and resources. A rich, ambitious criminal syndicate might have been able to pull it off; nevertheless, normally it is governments that work on this scale. And obscure poisons have long been a specialty of Russia's secret police, going back to a "toxicological office" that reported to Lenin personally. In the past, the Russians were known to have developed a gun delivering...
...That was first priority for us today: controlling the three-point line, specifically Williams,” Sullivan said. “In a couple situations Williams got away from us on the dribble, and we were okay with that, because he wasn’t getting into his pull-up behind-the-line game...