The frock coat full of wadding, cut close to pull the figure into shape, gradually gave way to a looser but still precise jacket.

ECONOMIST: Men's clothing

In the world of pull, everyone must figure out how to become a leader in their own domain.

FORBES

As we know, that's not the whole story, because there are lots of one-off factors acting to pull down the final figure for 2012-13, including the Royal Mail pension fund transfer and the debt interest now being transferred to the Treasury by the Bank of England.

BBC: More red ink for Chancellor George Osborne

"There are many investors out there who will take a gamble, figure I'll pull a monkey out of my hat again, " says Eugene, 43, a Canadian native with a Bahamian passport.

FORBES: Joint Venture

He seems to have realized that this assertive stroke stabilized the figure, suggesting a downward pull, rather than defiance of gravity, since the feet in the other studies and the finished painting are neatly crossed at the ankles and pulled back to imply motion.

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Obviously, the pricey hardware will mean even more losses to Sony at launch, but supposedly once they figure out emulation they'll pull the chips to lower their costs.

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As for us, we're hoping the company can pull something salvageable together from this mess and figure out a way to compete at a level of increasingly more difficult stakes.

ENGADGET: Another Palm exec is out... and CEO Jon Rubinstein is next?

Perhaps the most vocal advocate of a pull-out is Olivier Besancenot, a minority figure on the far left.

ECONOMIST: France and Afghanistan

When Republicans use these types of rules four out of 10 times in a previous Congress and then vociferously object to the use of that rule now, I think that is -- I think that is -- again, the standard is to embrace something and then find it objectionable a pivot that requires something few figure skaters in the Olympics are able to pull off.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

You might think that the EV-DO technology path has seen better days, what with carriers like Bell and Telus defecting for HSPA and others prepping to pull the plug altogether -- but really, it might take nothing more than one massive, eight-figure subscriber deployment of a next-gen EV-DO network to get things up and running again.

ENGADGET: China Telecom mulling huge EV-DO Rev. B rollout? Mobile