Word: pulling
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...can’t know what it would be like to perform these maneuvers in a combat situation, or how she would feel if she had to aim her gun at an enemy soldier and fire. Considering the alternatives is one way she understands how she could decide to pull the trigger. “Are you putting your soldier’s lives in danger by not doing this?” she says. “If you’re in that situation and you don’t shoot, what’s going to happen...
...Hale, Lucas? indefatigably cheerful and helpful Director of Communications, to record the interview on her end too. It happened that, on both sides, a few minutes were lost. I?m amused that neither the world?s largest media company nor the galaxy?s preeminent group of movie futurists could pull off recording the entire conversation. But, as you?ll see, there was enough left on the tape to give you a peek into the mind of Lucas Skywalker...
...suppose the point of the whole extravaganza is to show the pocketbooks how splendidly Harvard is caring for their children. And since the food is so good, I don’t really mind the not-so-subtle attempt to pull wool over the eyes of gullible junior parents. But this marks the extent of my tolerance for spin, and the College should realize it marks the extent of its practicality as well...
...that the idea of a "brain drain" verges on a national neurosis. In the year to January, the number of New Zealanders permanently departing the country exceeded by 25,000 those returning home; two years earlier the gap was 11,200. About 90% of the dynamic comes from the pull of high-wage Australia. During last year's election campaign, Don Brash, leader of National, the main opposition party, argued that the exodus was caused by his country's miserable growth in incomes (which are one-third below Australia's, on average, after tax) despite a good economic performance under...
...attacks have cast the piercing light of public scrutiny on a mission that was approved with little attention and almost no debate, and some Canadians have begun to wonder whether the effort is worth it. "Canada should pull its troops out," York University professor James Laxer wrote in a commentary in the Globe and Mail last week, arguing that Canadians "are not engaged in peacekeeping" but participating in a war aimed at establishing U.S. "hegemony" in that part of the world...