Word: pulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...these comments cast the Treasury as a collection of desperate people, cornered by the faltering financial system, who are willing to pull any rabbit that they can find out of their hats. This makes the new Geithner plan for public /private partnerships to buy toxic bank assets look like a carnival show. It was not heartening to see that the Treasury admitted that it did not have many takers for this new program, so it extended the deadline for applications by two weeks until April 24. Unfortunately, world class financiers keep track of things like dates. Those who have passed...
...Dull and Duller Re your 10 questions with Bobby Jindal [March 16]: If I hear another Republican politician spout the talking point that health care should be between patient and doctor and not a bureaucrat, I'm going to pull out what little hair I have left. My wife and I are self-employed. Our health-care costs eat up much of our annual income, and neither of us has a chronic illness. I would much rather have a bureaucracy deliver affordable coverage at whatever inconvenience than be squeezed dry by rapacious Republican-loving drug and insurance companies. Mark Dunn...
...plate was the play that had pushed the game past the 13th frame. After the Tigers had brought home two runs off of Harvard sophomore Dan Berardo, and the Crimson had made the first two outs in the bottom half, captain Harry Douglas seemed to have a shot to pull Harvard within one before his fence-bound bomb was pulled foul. He settled for a single, leaving Stack-Babich to battle with the wind...
...nine years. High cost union contracts and close competition from rivals like Toyota made Wagoner’s job a difficult one. And, to his credit, he closed unnecessary plants, laid off workers, and renegotiated union contracts in an attempt to streamline the company. But he did little to pull his company out of its unsustainable reliance on sales of sport utility vehicles and trucks, which plummeted when gas prices rose to $4 per gallon last year. It is largely this reliance that has led GM into its current crisis...
...Last June, Chais even wrote his investors a letter saying he was ill and should he get worse his son, Mark, who lives in Israel, would take over the investment business, which by my estimates handled between $500 million and $1 billion. Some were smart enough to pull out then, others, like my wife and I, continued to trust. If we pulled out, where would we put the money? In the caving stock market? In sinking real estate? In the bank? This seemed like a much safer bet, a bet that returned for over 30 years...