Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cable-TV operators are the robber barons of this end of the century, having built businesses by tuning in local broadcasters' signals, then sending all ^ those programs out along their wires. That's right: what they grab for free, they sell, in bulk, to you. A year ago, after fervid lobbying by the broadcast networks, Congress passed a law obliging the cable operators to start compensating the broadcasters -- or drop the networks from the cable menus...
...done little to pull the country out of its mire. When the government faltered on its promise to deliver land and reparations, former contras and ex-Sandinista troops took up guns again to grab territory and settle scores. In Managua the leader who pledged national reconciliation could not even reconcile the players within her own government. Last January the 12- party U.N.O. broke with her, along with Vice President Godoy. That has left Chamorro politically dependent on the Sandinistas, who were allowed to retain de facto control of the army and police forces. Now they too are pulling away...
...morning, Rose Meyers, a middle-aged Jewish English teacher who can't sleep, wanders down to the kitchen of her ritzy Long Island home to grab some nonfat yogurt and trips over the body of her estranged husband, the millionaire Richie, stabbed through the heart with a carving knife from Williams-Sonoma. Because he cheated on Rosie for 25 years and then dumped her, some might say the bum deserved every stainless-steel inch. Nevertheless, Rosie tries to pull the knife out of Richie's body. With hers the only fingerprints on the murder weapon, and plenty of reasons...
...love and money -- unlike their European counterparts, American chess players rarely make a living from the game -- Pandolfini agreed to be an adviser on the film. He showed actors how to grab the chess pieces ("There is a certain elegance to it," he says) and devised some 200 chess positions. For him, "The film isn't so much about trying to find the next Bobby Fischer; it is about trying to find those good times that came upon Fischer's success in 1972, when chess was suddenly important to the American public...
...flood, and they stole everything I had. There's no way I'm leaving this time." So he sits on Walter's second-story porch, just 1 ft. above the Mississippi, and watches debris from Minnesota and Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois float by. "If it looks interesting, I'll grab it," he says...