We were both strong-willed, and that was fine as long as we were pulling in tandem: both of us were fastidious and opinionated and ready to disapprove of other people's tastes, though we kept these judgments diplomatically between us.
Since Mr. Boehner became leader of House Republicans in 2007, he and Mr. McConnell have pulled in tandem in a way that has made it difficult for Democrats to drive a wedge between House and Senate Republicans.
There is one handlebar on either side, which instead of twisting around a central pivot, are pushed or pulled in tandem to move the front wheel.
Today, Tandem is pulling the curtain back on its second (and third) batches of six startups, and has opened up for submissions to its fall/winter class, with the deadline of October 1st.
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, tweeted and blogged about modernisation, while Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister and the other half of the tandem, pulled the strings, drove anything that moved and posed for cameras as he prepared to stroll back into the Kremlin in 2012, this time for two six-year terms.But in recent weeks the picture has become hazier.
The push and pull factors in tandem have led to brain drain of health professionals from African countries.
In tandem with this demographic charger pulling Helios's chariot across the skies is that other great workhorse: growth.
He was pulling in $110,000 a year and had survived two big mergers (Tandem got swallowed in 1997 by Compaq, which in turn disappeared into HP in 2002).
Garrett and Brown don't consider the piece complete until users interact with it, pulling on the cables to turn it off and on either in tandem or at random, creating what they refer to as an "electrical storm".
The three subassemblies of the rope-laying machine, arranged in tandem horizontally, are the foreturn flyers (rotating strand bobbins), the capstan flyer (pulling mechanism), and the receiving flyer (rope-twisting and storage bobbin mechanism).
