That retail experience shapes Mr. Kanas's view today, particularly his strategy of emphasizing customer service rather than engaging in rate wars to pull in deposits.
The immediate effect was to turn the fight with the South Ossetians into all-out war and to pull in the Russians.
Two opponents face off in a kind of tug of war, trying to pull a number in either direction.
Russian officials say the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, did not respond to a proposal from President Vladimir Putin for the warring sides to pull back their heavy weapons and stop fighting.
They lack memories of the Bush years, but have become socialized politically in a time period where a Democratic president inherited two long drawn-out wars, struggled to pull the economy out of the post-2008 recession, and condemned the man who revealed the extent of the government surveillance program which had its roots in post-9/11 legislation.
They are here: The object of Tug-of-War is to pull the other player or team across the center line.
A16 India and Pakistan Step Back India and Pakistan are, in an undertaking almost as mammoth as preparing for war, getting ready to pull hundreds of thousands of troops back from their border after a prolonged standoff.
Consequently, the basic dynamic of the campaign remains unchanged: Clegg's party, which hasn't formed a government since the First World War, is threatening to pull off a historic result.
WASHINGTON — As General David H. Petraeus takes command in Afghanistan, the two top American civilian officials in the war face an uncertain and tricky future, working with a newly empowered military leader, under the gaze of an impatient president who has put them on notice that his fractious war council needs to pull together.
It wasn't altruism: FDR needed Latin America's help in World War II and to pull the global economy out of the trashcan.
