Word: grab
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...seriousness is apparent yet not obtrusive. Whites seem to run the country, the corporations and the media, much as they did under apartheid, but that will hardly register with international audiences conditioned to see a parade of Caucasians in action movies. What is more likely to grab viewers is the dynamic storytelling (partly in mockumentary form), the gruesome yet sympathetic aliens, the robot suit that briefly turns Wikus into Iron Man, and the surfeit of body parts exploding. Like David Cronenberg - especially in his masterpiece, The Fly - Blomkamp is fascinated by the ways our bodies morph, decay and betray...
...liked how you began one of the chapters by advising your readers to grab their favorite beverage and find a quiet space because your about to "twist the mind into pretzel form...
Just as in other places, money alone really isn’t enough to “make it” in Dallas, so it’s not really surprising that the city’s elite were quick to grab hold of a former president coming back into their neck of the woods. Having Bush around, knowing him, and calling him “George” have thus become signs of membership in the Dallas establishment. And the zeal with which the former president has been defended, celebrated, and championed is a testament to the city?...
...voters honked their horns for the BNP in June's European elections, giving the party its first two seats in the European Parliament and a corresponding boost to legitimacy and funding. In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders' Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom, PVV) elbowed aside centrist rivals to grab second place in the Netherlands' Euro poll. Around Europe a ragbag of extremist parties, as varied as the countries that produced them yet united by a vehement nationalism that singles out minority groups as a growing threat, scored in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Romania...
...short, Washington is in the midst of a sweeping power grab over the compensation practices of corporate America. This makes me cringe, at least a little. The government's record at pay regulation is not encouraging. The wage and price controls of the Nixon era were quickly abandoned as unworkable. A 1993 attempt by Congress and the Clinton Administration to rein in executive pay by not allowing corporations a tax deduction on executive salaries above $1 million turned out to be an object lesson in unintended consequences. Because it exempted performance-based pay, the new limit accelerated an already...