Word: pulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...aggressive campaigner for Kerry/Edwards, Casey’s coattails are widely credited with helping to pull the party’s losing presidential ticket to victory in the Keystone State. Seeing Casey’s strength, Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., who chairs the Democrats’ Senate campaign committee, persuaded the pro-lifer to run for the Senate next year against Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn.—a formidable, but extremely right-wing incumbent. And in doing so, Schumer muscled aside a fellow pro-choice politician, who also happened...
...Panthers broke open a 4-4 tie with a six-run fifth inning to pull away from the Crimson on their way to an 11-6 victory in Miami on Tuesday...
...Thursday and is expected to endorse a controversial $1.25 billion hydroelectric dam that even developers admit will have major social and environmental impact. Yet the dam could earn the country $2 billion in revenue over a period of 25 years?money the government has promised it will use to pull its people out of poverty. That makes it a gamble the World Bank thinks is worth taking. "If revenues are channeled in the way we have agreed with the government," says Ian Porter, World Bank country director for Laos, "then we have every confidence they will have an impact...
...critical issue to fight that fight for life, whether it be euthanasia or abortion. I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, one thing God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo to elevate the visibility of what's going on in America. That Americans would be so barbaric as to pull a feeding tube out of a person that is lucid and starve them to death for two weeks. I mean, in America that's going to happen if we don't win this fight...
...both sides forsook defense in their desperate effort to pull ahead in the frame’s waning moments, sophomore Dylan Reese’s failed clearing attempt squirted to Cavanagh at the Harvard blue line, where he dashed past a pair of Colgate defenders and headed up ice with only Mormina left to beat. Afforded hardly any space at all, Cavanagh deftly pushed a pass to himself around the Raiders’ last man as he crossed center ice, then fought to squeeze off a wrist shot in the slot as Mormina attempted to haul him down...