Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Soviets' Strategic Rocket Forces have been converting single-warhead ICBM launchers into multiple-warhead ones so rapidly that the weapons will soon be approaching the SALT II ceiling of 820 MIRVed ICBMs. As early as this summer the Kremlin may face a decision whether to pull back or proceed in that conversion. Also, the Soviets might any day test an SS-18 heavy missile with 20 or more warheads. For them to do so would not only make a mockery out of the SALT II freeze on MIRVing, it would also jeopardize the U.S. mobile MX missile -which...
...small group of ultrarich investors could pull a squeeze. They would simply buy up so many outstanding futures contracts that there would not be enough metal available to meet demand if the contract holders insisted upon delivery of real silver, rather than being willing to turn their paper profits into cash, when their contracts expired. That would push prices into outer space on the spot market, as unfortunate speculators who had contracted to deliver silver scrambled to buy the limited supply to meet their legal commitments...
Today a six-block stretch of Calle Ahumada in Santiago is one of South America's busiest commercial malls. Brightly painted signs pull shoppers into new boutiques stuffed with madras dresses from India, art supplies from Germany and motorcycles from Japan. The adjoining streets are jammed with honking hordes of shiny cars and trucks of every modern make. Workers are digging trenches for an extension of the Santiago subway. However, La Moneda palace, where Pinochet's predecessor, Marxist Salvador Allende, was killed in 1973, remains begrimed and run down...
...more. Bert Parks, 65, for 25 years the mellow master of ceremonies whose rendition of that unguent ballad had become something of a late-summer tradition, has not been invited back for 1980's Miss America contest. Parks took the news hard: "I never thought they'd pull a trick like this. It's a little shabby, isn't it?" No reason was given for his ouster, nor was a successor announced. Some names have been dropped, such as those of Entertainer John Davidson, 38, as sincere as Bert but far younger, and Singer Mac Davis...
...should totally blow them out next time," promised sophomore winger Dave Burke, who rammed two powerplay shots past Dennis to pull Harvard to within 4-3 midway through the third period of Saturday's contest before Princeton's Drew Forbes settled things with an emptynet goal...