Word: grab
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...weakness for the easy incongruity (short men dancing with tall women--isn't that hilarious?) that it could almost be Australian. But Shall We Dance? also has an emotional gravity; it is grounded in a middle-aged man's nagging belief that he has one last chance to grab at life...
When McDonald's was rolling its sesame-seeded success across virgin country, obtaining a franchise was a ticket to a fast-food fortune. Says a winner in Georgia, who insisted on anonymity: "You see a lot of affluence, and you think it's waiting for you when you grab the keys." But as competition stiffened, a set of Golden Arches has become less golden and more arch. The average franchisee owns 3.4 stores, each of which generates about $1.5 million in sales. With profits falling, though, the resale value of a store is half that of three years ago, according...
Your item on Planned Parenthood's attempt to garnish affinity payments earmarked for Operation Rescue from the LifeLine telephone company [NOTEBOOK, May 12] may cause some readers to think that Planned Parenthood could grab money from LifeLine that American Family Association supporters intended to go to us. This is not the case. Planned Parenthood cannot interfere with LifeLine's payments to the American Family Association or any organization other than Operation Rescue. PATRICK J. VAUGHN Assistant General Counsel American Family Association Tupelo, Miss...
...hang up the phone and grab my portable alarm clock off the adjacent shelf. It's 9:13 a.m. I drop the clock to the floor, roll over and go back to sleep...
...tiny portion of the national habit, of course. Americans legally hazarded an astonishing half a trillion dollars in 1995, earning the gaming industry profits of $44.4 billion--more than the net revenue from movies, music and sports entertainment combined. But as the Web becomes ubiquitous, online gambling will grab an ever larger slice of this multibillion-dollar pie. "I get two calls a day," says Rose, "one from the media, the other from someone who wants to set up shop on the Net. There's a feeling that they're getting in on the ground floor of the next...