"I started to pull back because I thought he wasn't happy with me, " she says.

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Peterffy thought he could pull information from the Nasdaq terminal without touching the machine.

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Many of their supporters thought they would pull American troops out of Iraq.

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On average analysts thought Sonoco would pull in 60 cents per share in the fourth quarter, and the company previously expected between 60 and 64 cents.

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"We thought it was time to pull out the equity from the house and secure it in some way, " says Marc Silverman.

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While a push from the school end can clearly make a difference, a "pull" from the universities themselves is also thought useful.

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When I tried to pull up Ponzi Black, for instance, it thought it heard "Ponzi Blaak" and couldn't find her.

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Apparently the company, whose roots are in social action and philanthropy, thought its bona fides were solid enough to let it pull off the joke.

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Sarah Palin was thought to excite the Republican base in Alaska and could pull Ted Stevens to victory, but again he still trails in that race as well.

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Ally, with her hand on the lever, about to open the car door, was thinking that nothing on earth was strong enough to pull this ugly secret out of her, least of all a woman who thought it mattered if her stupid novel had died.

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"We thought there would be very little chance that somebody would come into a business of our size to pull off something like this, " he says.

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