Word: grab
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Mathews categorized PETA’s provocative tactics as necessary measures to grab the public’s attention, adding that they “didn’t always act like idiots...
...mail to her entryway and to history concentrators that followed Kirshner’s e-mail, Brown suggested that students contact her if “you’re in NYC and you want to grab a beer (I was never very good at enforcing all those rules anyways...
...slick, they look as if they have been freshly buffed and polyurethaned. Then along came the Impressionists, with their rough-textured, gnarly, worked-looking canvases. Among contemporary fiction writers we have purveyors of lapidary, polished, M.F.A.-perfect prose--John Updike, Alice Munro--and on the other side, a grab bag of avant-gardists (like David Foster Wallace), witty pyrotechnicians (Jonathan Franzen) and operatic monologists (Toni Morrison) who fling words upon the page in heavy, meaningful daubs. Now, just as they did back then, it's the second bunch who get to sit at the cool kids' table...
...preferably first, and offered high-tech capability to Iraqis starved of it, customers would probably pour in. "This is the perfect storm for business," he says. "This is an extremely educated country with a lot of money, and you're starting everything from scratch. It's like a land grab." That is, if you live long enough to grab. Being an entrepreneur in Iraq may be among the most terrifying jobs in business today...
...land grab that Mulhern describes has in fact barely begun. Sure, Pepsi signed a new deal with its old bottler. Drive around Baghdad, though, and you will see little outward sign of Western business at work yet--no McDonald's, Pizza Huts or Ford dealerships. "Who would be willing to come here?" Khesbak asks, laughing. "You have to be a little crazy...