Word: grab
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...promote confusion, distrust and noncompliance. Rather than have one unified scheme, for example, Japan has three, categorized by employment status. Salaried employees and public servants are enrolled automatically, but the self-employed have to fill out forms in order to join. And those designated as "self-employed" include a grab bag of illogical participants, including some housewives, students and, oddest of all, Diet members. Although paying into the pension pool of the self-employed is technically mandatory, it is, in practice, voluntary. So many either simply decide not to pay or accidentally neglect to do so because they...
Unfortunately, it would appear that the world isn’t quite ready for Dartboard and his kind. Dartboard thinks his next step should be to begin the fight for social tolerance, but first he’ll go ahead and grab another Red Bull...
Matthew C. Dewitz ’05, currently the drum major, explains that he joined the band after talking with a fellow flautist during his freshman week. “When you come and audition they just grab you because you get a jacket right away,” he says. “The social machine starts working immediately.” I look admiringly at the maroon band jacket that I am wearing...
Williamson fielded the ball cleanly, but her throw to junior Cecily Gordon at first was low. Unable to come up with the toss, Gordon went to the ground to grab the rolling ball...
...officer was dispatched to Lowell House to take a report of a past attempted assault. The reporting party stated that two individuals attempted to strike and grab him but were unsuccessful...