Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tend to be lower-an electrical technician in San Jose, Calif., makes an average of $9.77 an hour; his non-union colleague in Colorado Springs makes $7.84-but there are many other compensations. As Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk told TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz: "Refugees from the East and California pull up stakes, take a cut in salary, and trade the loss in money for psychic income...
Catholic took advantage of the free lanes down deep to make some easy layups and six-foot baseline jumpers. Sharp perimeter shooting by Mack--nine for 14 and 23 points overall--helped pull Catholic up by the 15-point halftime margin...
What Crimson Coach Rick Duckett sees as his squad's defensive weakness let the Eagles mount several strong comebacks, only to have the cagers score a string of points and pull away again...
...CANNOT help feeling somewhat duped in the end-exploited, or at least toyed with by an expert. Perhaps the marionette strings pull us in directions we do not wish or deserve to go. The movie does not try to be a polemic, but it is so good it becomes one. "Nobody is independent," Isabelle's pimp yells, spanking her. "Not whores, not typists, not duchesses, not servants, not champion tennis players...
...There were times I thought I couldn't do it," she recalls. "A lot of it was body mechanics--a big man can pull up a ladder with his arms. While I had to use my whole upper body. I started out imitating their way and had no luck...