Word: grab
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...premise that ambition is the "Need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it" confuses ambition with greed and cut-throat competitiveness. Nature may be a zero-sum game, but civilization is not. Ambitious people don't just grab a bigger piece of the pie; they also make the pie bigger so that there's more to go around. Ambitious people brought us the printing press, personal computer, medical advances and agricultural efficiencies undreamed of 100 years ago. Mary Jacobs Dallas...
...yard breaststroke, sophomore Jackie Pangilian won the event with an NCAA B cut time. She was followed by junior LeeAnn Chang, who took third with another NCAA B cut time. Colling finished fifth.Sophomore Alison Pipitone came through in the three-meter dive event as well, as she grabbed the lead after her third dive and was able to hold it to the end. Sophomore Samantha Papadakis came back from a seventh-place position after dive three to finish second overall.The most exciting win of the night was Bassi’s. She dominated the 200-yard butterfly with a time...
...have been in short supply, their members still scattered to Houston and Atlanta. The crowds along the parade routes have been sparser too. On the bright side, that has made it easier to score the strands of colored beads flung by people on parade floats. Hustle, and you could grab 50 or so in just a few hours. Making the most of misfortune--that's a very New Orleans thing...
Cornell hasn’t shown the same lack of intensity that Harvard exhibited during the same stretch, and it should rebound nicely to grab a 10-point win over the Bears and a home weekend sweep...
Under the Common Casting system, roles are offered to a primary actor and multiple alternates; if the primary turns down the role during the 24-hour period between initial cast-list postings and final cast-list decisions, the first alternate has the opportunity to grab...