Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand signals. Due in stores this fall, the phantasmagoric Flipper was designed to make the electronic world more friendly for 6- to 12-year-old girls. Fin-Fin is a long way from a truly smart disk-based mammal--she can't swim out to the Internet and grab an image, for instance--but Fujitsu hopes she and her electronic cousins will help demystify (and sell) computers...
Race, diversity and affirmative action are weighty words that carry on their shoulders years of strife and struggle. Increasingly, however, they have become catch words used to grab the attention of readers, and they may have begun to lose their power. One can hardly turn the pages of a newspaper without seeing several headlines concerning race. President Neil L. Rudenstine's annual report was about diversity at Harvard, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 is in the news about his views on blacks at Harvard, "Diversity and Distinction" is a monthly campus publication, and since...
There is deep anxiety at Langley that Deutch's grab for power is designed to advance his own career. The rumor circulating in Langley is that his secret game plan is to take over the Defense Department if Clinton wins a second term and if Perry resigns to return to private life. Deutch's senior aides insist that for now, his power is the spies' best friend. "At the end of the day, are we better off with John Deutch at the CIA?" asks his deputy Tenet. "The answer is yes." Considering how low the agency has sunk, what...
...also reminded the boomers that they were entering their 50s and being crowded from below by younger people with different cultural experiences and no special fondness for the shared memories of their elders. The Jackie auction promised an opportunity to halt the slide toward death and anonymity, to grab some tangible relic from the days when the world seemed filled with hope and high spirits...
...year advisers, but I was told to take a bit of everything--there is no rush to decide. Sure, I can take my time, maybe put off pre-med until after college and then add two more years to the already too-long trek to medical school. Why not grab a last minute Ph.D. in European history...