Word: pulling
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...talk: he once said criminal elements should be cleaned out with an "industrial power hose." Just days before the mayhem ignited, he went into a troubled banlieue and slammed rebellious youths as "scum"--which some protesters say stoked their anger. The rioting "is going to go on until they pull Sarkozy out of office," says K-Soc, 19, in Bobigny. "He heats things up and then leaves us here to deal with the police." But backlash against the violence is rising among the residents of the banlieues, who marched in silence through their charred neighborhoods on Saturday in a call...
...daily pressure to create a winning race car that caused Stewart to pull himself over for a psychological pit stop. "I decided, 'I'm just going to up and go home,'" he said. It wasn't that Stewart disliked Charlotte (memo to Chamber of Commerce: he's still got a place there). It's that he just couldn't get away from the shop, which was only about 15 minutes from his house. So now Stewart spends time between races with his buddies, fishing or riding four-wheelers through the woods. "To be able to maintain a competitive edge...
...When the cars pull up to me, the Porsches and the Bentleys and all that, I just sort of say, 'Well, that's nice, but for what this costs I could buy 10 of those.'" JON SPALLINO, Californian construction executive and the driver of a Honda FCX, an electric car powered by hydrogen-fuel cells. He is leasing the experimental vehicle, worth $1 million, from Honda for $500 a month...
...Dominion, one of the nation's most reliably Republican states, or poster boy for his national party's woes heading into next year's mid-term elections. "We can't even win in Virginia?" Republicans will be asking themselves if the former state attorney general does not pull it out in his neck-and-neck race against the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Timothy M. Kaine. "The conventional wisdom will be that the Republicans are on the verge of a massive meltdown in 2006," says the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato, whose quotes to national reporters will do much to define...
...forced the deciding fifth game.“It’s frustrating because we completely dominated [Columbia] in the beginning,” Blotky said. “To see that we’re capable of doing that, and then not being able to pull out the match, that’s just frustrating.”CORNELL 3, HARVARD 0It was David and Goliath again, but this time, Goliath made sure that the underdog had no chance.Though the Crimson took a game from the undefeated Big Red the last time the two teams met, Cornell thoroughly suffocated...