Word: pulling
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...Green forced tons of Colgate mistakes and overcame a meager offensive performance to pull off a 26-21 upset. Welcome to your rude awakening, Dartmouth...
If—as I am sure the admissions board says—there are no compromises on academics made, then admitting people without particular emphasis on sporting ability should still be able to produce a healthy athletics program. I will admit that we may not pull in 14 Ivy League titles again, but we don’t need to. Harvard is not a university that needs to be recognized nationally for its sports. We are (perhaps arguably) the top university in the country, if not the world, and concerns about our athletics program that extend to our admissions...
...plan makes good, hard engineering sense, but as always with NASA, the problem is less in the engineering than in the politics. For one thing, the agency says it will take no more than $104 billion over 13 years to pull the project off, necessitating no increase in NASA funding. That sounds like way too free a lunch. The next manned NASA program that comes in on time and under budget will be the first. The space station-easily NASA's biggest fiscal and political disaster-will cost more than 12 times its original projections...
What is it about the pull of the moon that holds Hanks fast? Why does a high-powered Hollywood player with the muscle to tackle pretty much any production he wants keep returning to his lunar love...
...time wound down late in the contest, Harvard began to pull off the throttle and took most of its starters out of the game. Nevertheless, the Crimson maintained its defensive focus and finished out its first shutout of the season with a number of nonstarters on the field...