Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a flustered first half at Cumnock Field which saw the Rams grab a 1-0 lead, the Crimson pulled together to come back and win its season opener, 2-1, on a game-winning goal by junior Sandra Whyte with 13 minutes remaining in the contest. Rachel Burke also tallied for the hometown squad...
...cooperation against a nation that had long been an ally of the Kremlin's would have been inconceivable. But their new quasi alliance is the most striking, though very far from the only example of a proposition that has gathered force over the past six weeks: Saddam's power grab and the U.S.-led opposition to it have so shaken up global political and power calculations that the world will never be the same...
...from below and be coordinated with a vastly reduced administrative center. The only problem is that the old chain of command has all but collapsed, and nothing has arisen to take its place. The President's decrees have been largely ignored by the country's restive republics, determined to grab as much authority as they can from Moscow. Leading the revolt has been the country's largest republic, Russia, and Gorbachev's longtime political rival, Boris Yeltsin...
PRINCE: GRAFFITI BRIDGE (Warner Bros.). The movie -- a sequel to 1984's Purple Rain -- is not out until October, but this funked-out, sizzling soundtrack won't wait that long. Sensual and spiritual: better grab it fast...
...conservatives are especially critical of the President's insistence that Iraq's power grab poses such a danger to global stability that it must be reversed. In Carpenter's view, only direct threats to America's physical survival, political independence or democratic freedoms justify the use of force. Says he: "The possibility of higher oil prices arising from a stronger Iraqi position in the Middle East does not meet that standard." Though most support the naval blockade and diplomatic pressure on Iraq, Buchanan and his cohort are unanimously opposed to a large-scale ground offensive to force Saddam to surrender...