Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard--yes Harvard--has a man or woman to fill competently every single chair around Clinton's new cabinet table. If Bill were to grab his cabinet members randomly from the College's dining halls, faculty lounges and administration building hallways, he'd come up with some real winners for his staff...
...course, this proposal is a bald faced grab for arm votes in the runup to the November election, but that's old news. Much more frightening is that, in a single stroke, Bush has wantonly threatened the stability of the European Community (E.C.) and has seriously undermined the GATT mission of multilateral trade liberalization...
Instead of a stimulus package, or a serious deficit-reduction plan, Bush in his January 1992 State of the Union address proposed a grab bag of tax breaks for favored investors and industries including real estate. Bush's proposals fell flat with Congress and the public, in part because of their tardiness: 17 months after the recession had begun. His poll ratings continued to slide. And when Pat Buchanan made headway against Bush in the Republican primaries by chiding the President for his turnabout on taxes, Bush repudiated the breaking of his tax pledge in 1990 as "a mistake." This...
...SPOA report] is highly biased and flawed to its foundations as to what it can say about the city," said Michael H. Turk, the co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants' Union. "[The lawsuit] is a grab bag of claims already litigated and wholly and thoroughly illegitimate...
...Democrats too have been using the military pork barrel as a grab bag of gifts. Bill Clinton, for instance, backs more Seawolfs for Connecticut. And of course nothing turns a liberal Congressman into a hawk faster than the threat of a base closing on his home turf...