Word: pulling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...course, threatening to remove of U.S. military resources might be a more effective ultimatum, but then the reason the U.S. sent its army there in the first place was to stop Saudi oil reserves from falling into the hands of Saddam Hussein, so they're hardly likely to pull out and let the Iraqi dictator duke it out with Osama bin Laden to fill the void...
...dissemination of false information," says John Coffee, an expert on Internet securities fraud at Columbia University Law School. "That's why they often flock to [the] chat rooms with the worst information, so they can find material that will destabilize the market one minute before they profitably pull out the next...
...punishing deadline, and the new book has an air of desperation. With the same diary format, complete with alcohol and cigarette logs, and the same wacky circle of friends, Bridget seems to be living her own private Groundhog Day, unable to learn from her mistakes, move forward or pull herself together the tiniest bit. The plot--and is there ever a plot--is driven by her on-again, off-again romance with Mark Darcy. The fact that the reader is so much smarter and more observant than Bridget is, this time round, irritating rather than suspenseful...
...believes the U.S. has reached this point, and anticipates that finance companies like Citibank and First USA will follow the recent move by American Express to issue smart cards to their clients, as well as readers for their PCs at reduced prices. Noting Motorola's decision last year to pull out of an already tight global smart-card market, Giry expresses confidence that new players will not be able to take on the three French companies that have more than 70% of the global-production market: Gemplus, Schlumberger and Bull...
...objectives are achieved. No amount of talking by Rubin will change that - in fact, since NATO has made clear that it doesn't want to get into a confrontation with the ethnic-Albanian community in Kosovo, it may have little option but to either tolerate increasing violence or else pull out altogether...