Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservatives do make aggressive attempts to grab the attention of the student body, there is a reason for it, they say. Conservative students--and conservative professors like Mansfield--often use widespread campus liberalism as an explanation for their own activism...
...companies had to pay a hefty fee to, say, BellSouth, in order to connect to a phone customer in Atlanta. But through its new alliance, U S West will, in theory, be able to provide local phone service to Time Warner cable subscribers outside the Western states, threatening to grab a share of the long-distance connect charges that account for a quarter of the Baby Bells' revenues and half their profits...
When I walked into store 24 one day to grab some munchies for my evening at The Crimson, I beheld a most in-triguing sight. There in the front display case, was a three liter bottle of Diet Crystal Pepsi...
...could quickly produce TV pictures of dead Americans rather than dead Bosnians. "If we go in and things go bad," concedes a Clinton aide, "then everything at home will stop as the world watches a messy ground war. Besides, we may get lucky. The Serbs may conclude they've grabbed enough territory and stop their killing, in which case no one's going to fight to roll back their land grab. The point is we're trying to keep our eye on the ball" -- and America's eyes off Bosnia. "I'd like to go on ((to)) something else...
...Serbs of the Doboj bicycle path do not care if the whole world is poised against them. They share the determination of Colonel Lika to grab their destiny or die. "The time of living together is over," he says. "We may be able to live side by side but not together. Never again together...