Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Tigers' secondary was ravaged by graduation. The linebackers also run somewhat shallow, but the defensive line--anchored by consistent end Paul Van Pelt and tackle Steve Hart--should be aggressive. But all told, Princeton's defense prevents them from entering the upper echelons of the Ivies--though they might pull off an upset or two. No, Navarro is not switching from spikes to topsiders...
...zloty. The plumber, whose services are normally difficult to obtain, comes immediately if the bill is paid with a pair of nylon hosiery. Hard-to-get meats like veal are available, at six times the official price; wealthy nightclub patrons in Warsaw are occasionally pounced on by flashers who pull open their coats to offer for sale not their bodies but hunks of fresh meat...
...News's strategy is successful, the paper could pull readers and ad dollars away from not only the Post but also the Times (daily circulation: 915,000). Though Times officials deny persistent rumors that they will launch an afternoon edition if Tonight takes off, they do admit to plans for various unspecified "innovations" in the paper this fall and winter. For the moment the Times seems preoccupied with other matters. The paper last week began printing in Chicago for distribution in nine Midwestern states, with home delivery in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, as well as the Windy City. Mindful...
...happenes in November, it should be a gross mistake to count out the Democrats: witness all this obituaries of the Republican Party written at regular intervals from 1964 to as recently as 1976. The Democrats are still the majority party, a party open to bewilderingly diverse groups who somehow pull themselves together for one more election, and then another and another. Said Vice President Mondale last week: "This Democratic Convention is a mirror of all America ?all of it, black and white, Asian and Hispanic, native and immigrant, male and female, young and old, urban and rural, rich...
Despite the modest increase in retail sales, it is unlikely that consumer spending will pull the economy out of recession this year, as it did in 1975. Wary customers are still doing most of then" buying for cash rather than on credit. In California the Carter Hawley Hale chain reports that in the first half of the year there was a 2½% drop in credit sales. Consumers in June decreased their debt load by $3.46 billion, after a $3.43 billion drop in May. Any cash left over is now being stashed away in savings accounts. The level of savings...