Word: pulling
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...combination of factors that may have led to the failures. "You've got a vehicle with marginal stability and a tire that is marginal," says Dick Baumgardner, a former Firestone engineer who now examines tire accidents for legal cases. "Put them together, and you've got a disaster." Pull them apart, and in addition to the human toll, you've got all the makings of a nasty corporate pileup...
...that's exactly the point - when the debates actually happen, none of this nitpicking and needling is going to be remembered. What matters for Bush is how he actually performs in that first face-off (and then the last one), and although he's got a good chance to pull a Reagan on Gore's Carter, ceding ground on substance and winning on style, it's certainly not in his interest to raise expectations of his own chances. Meanwhile, Gore is hyping himself right into a no-win situation...
Then it was over. She said she had to get back. She asked the driver to pull over so she could get out. We started pleading for more time. Meet us for dinner? No. Breakfast tomorrow? No. Send you pictures? Please, no. The van stopped at a red light. Somebody opened the door. She kissed Rae on the head, stroked her hair one last time, stepped out, finally let go of her hand and closed the door. The light turned green. We drove off and watched her shrink away from us, dropped off on the corner of Nowhere and Forever...
Jack E. White's commentary on my book Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America [DIVIDING LINE, Aug. 7] mistakenly depicted me as having written a callow screed rather than the constructively intended arguments I proposed. I do not call for blacks to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps." On the contrary, I outline strategies for guiding young black students out of a culturally ingrained wariness of school. The claim that I was uncomfortable with my Stanford fellowship but "didn't turn [it] down" is insulting, misrepresenting a process I describe in which I began by agreeing with affirmative...
...wake of the Thresher's loss, it is designed to reach trapped submariners anywhere in the world within three days. It could have come--had the Russians asked--to the Kursk's aid last week. Should American submariners find their vessel sinking, they have been trained to pull emergency stores of food and oxygen into whatever living space remains. They know that the rescue sub's goal is to hook up with a downed submarine within 72 hours of an accident. So on any stricken U.S. submarine, the survivors' goal is simple: Stay alive for one week, giving rescuers more...