Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sarajevo last Wednesday night--thus meeting a NATO deadline and staving off renewed air strikes--the Croats and Muslims had recaptured nearly 1,500 sq. mi. of disputed real estate and whittled the portion of Bosnia controlled by the Serbs from about 65% to just under 50%. That land grab initially provoked fears that a possible peace agreement was in danger of being wrecked. But by week's end, the Croat-Muslim federation had put the brakes on its offensive, and suddenly the Clinton Administration appeared tantalizingly close to a diplomatic triumph that could redeem its reputation both at home...
Levin's relationship with Captain Outrageous has improved since 1985. At that time, Turner's grab for the MGM film library left him desperately short of cash. To the rescue rode Malone's TCI and Time Inc. (which later merged with Warner to form the current company). The stakes Turner gave them in return for the bailout, however--18% for Time Warner and 21% for TCI--left him beholden to the companies and unable to make major moves without their consent. When Levin vetoed a Turner plan to acquire NBC last year, Turner publicly complained that Time Warner's treatment...
...wanted to share his experience with the entire crowd, and not grab the spotlight for himself...
Talk about a political grab bag! At last Friday's Presidential Campaign Conference over at the Kennedy School, supporters of former Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander were distributing a video dubbed "Lamar!" The offer was topped by the Bob Dole camp's audio tape, but couldn't really compete with Pat Buchanan's world wide web home page or the t-shirts from Morry Taylor, the delusionary Republican Perot. Some candidates' giveaways were more significant...
After the ordeal of this film you may feel that you want to grab the sweetest girl you know and hold her until it's all right again. Know that whatever happens, the fear, disgust and sadness that "Seven" evokes quickly start to dull, and that eventually they will disappear completely. I hope...