Charitable commitment can be pulled down by a number of factors, including high management salaries and large fundraising costs.

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The stock may be pulled down by this type of analyst action, as it was today, but we have to wonder how much worse can the news get for DryShips?

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It is surprising though that in all the months since John Locker started warning people that the signals could be pulled down by anyone using amateur equipment, the US military have not introduced encoding even of the type used by commercial broadcasters.

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It was end-to-end action as West Ham looked for a route back into the game but the clearer chances fell to the home side, who thought they should have had a penalty when the lively Thomas appeared to be pulled down in the box by Reid.

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Either way, I could imagine it taking off in a big way if they actually build it, though Web owners would surely be frustrated by a screen that could be pulled down over their sites with content over which they would have no control.

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To add to the menace, the new Java programming language, developed by another Microsoft enemy, Sun Microsystems, had the potential to create applications programmes that could be pulled down from servers linked to the Internet and would run on any operating system.

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