Word: pulling
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...Chicago, the catering trucks were starting to pull up alongside the vans hawking flags from just about every Latino country stretching from Mexico south, the mothers with large grocery bags to keep their kids well fed during a long march and a long day, and the dozens of media trucks parked around Union Park on Chicago?s Near West Side. Some had been here all night; some were just rushing to join friends and strangers...
Ecotourists have turned their gaze on Madagascar and its bounty of lemurs - tourism was up by 21% between 2004 and 2005 - but outside the capital, Antananarivo, there are few decent hotels. Local subsistence farmers don't care much, and thus President Marc Ravalomanana, who is determined to pull the world's fourth largest island out of its economic quagmire, craves outside entrepreneurs to boost the hospitality business. Which is how Marie-José de Speville and Karl-Heinz Horner moved from the Seychelles to Joffreville, a small mountain village 30 km from the northerly port of Diego Suarez. Joffreville...
...sort of move in the final 500 meters that it has mastered in a dual season marred by inconsistency. The Crimson took up the rating and found the rhythm it had so lacked in the first three minutes, tearing down the course in the furious final sprint to pull within seats of the Bulldogs and the Tigers.The three crews crossed the line in close succession, as Yale (5:46.2) eked out a three-seat win over Princeton (5:47.2), and the Crimson (5:47.3) followed just 0.1 seconds behind the Tigers.Over 500 meters, Harvard jumped both Princeton and Yale...
...were complete and the game began, Cornell jumped out to an early lead. Only 26 seconds into the period, sophomore Charlotte Schmidlapp scored off an assist from fellow sophomore Caroline Simmons. Martin evened up the game at one apiece, but the Big Red assembled one of many rallies to pull away from Harvard. The Cornell defense stifled the Harvard offense, allowing only 26 shots in the entire game while firing off 34 of its own. At halftime, the scoreboard stood at 6-2. Going into the second half, the Big Red continued where it left off, scoring 35 seconds into...
...could not catch BU, as the varsity eight was edged by 1.6 seconds in posting a time of 6:29.0.“We gained a boat length in the first 1000, but then the boat fell apart,” Martin said. “We tried to pull it back together at the end but could not make it.”The varsity eight could not come together in part because the combination on Saturday had never raced together. In addition to an injury on the boat, the Black and White had also brought...