1.   After the carpet has been removed and the tack strips are pulled up, wood putty then can be used to fill the holes.

2.   But that is not the reason the strip was pulled.

3.   Newsday, on Long Island, N.Y., pulled the strip for a week.

4.   The prepaste or added paste might have shrunk, pulling the strips of paper away from each other.

5.   Other papers pulled the strip before it ran.

6.   They ripped off his burning clothes, pulling away strips of smoking flesh as well, witnesses said.

7.   Tim McGuire, editor of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, said pulling the strip would be improper.