Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan is to boost the current tax from one-third of 1% of the value of each stock trade to 5% of a transaction's value, which would raise an estimated $60 billion over five years. "It's an easy grab," admitted a securities lobbyist fighting the plan. "It raises billions from people who don't scream and may not even feel...
...time only to grab my ancient cat, Minnie, and the manuscript of a book just two weeks from completion. By the time I tried to jump into my car to drive away, walls of flame were jumping over the driveway, scorching my face and shrouding the house in an angry orange haze. The three of us leaped, pursued by flames, into a van, and started to race down the mountain road. Within 50 yards, we knew we could go no farther. Flames 70 feet high were cresting over the curve of the hill on one side, and on the other...
...sign reflects what Harvard Square merchants said yesterday is increasing frustration over a lack of police and community response to a recent wave of "smash and grab" burglaries of local shops...
...into oncoming cars. Because the cops tend to start shooting at the first glimpse of a careering stolen vehicle, joyriders will place a four- or five-year-old up against the back window to discourage the fire. Afterward they often strip the car and sell the parts. The joyriders grab cars from Catholic more than from Protestant neighborhoods, so the I.R.A. has taken to kneecapping those whom they capture. For every child who wants no part in civil war and wants to go to America, for every child who dreams of joining the I.R.A., there is a ghetto...
...even Iraq's Arab neighbors are made nervous by Saddam's demonstrated . willingness to use his weapons. One year after assuming the presidency in 1979, Saddam sent his armies into Iran, anticipating a quick and easy grab of disputed territory. Before a cease-fire halted the fighting eight years later, Saddam had used his chemical weapons against Iran's soldiers and fired his missiles on Tehran and other cities. During the savage war, Saddam enunciated to a visiting Arab delegation his guiding philosophy toward the region by pounding a table with his shoe and shouting, "That's the only...