Word: grab
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...longstanding favorite is the Night of a Hundred Stars, a fund-raiser for Martin Scorsese's Film Preservation Foundation. The night is as curiously old-fashioned as its name, and all the more charming for it. The attendees are an odd grab-bag of celebrities. Some are legitimately A-list names having a B-list year out of the Academy limelight. Others are B-list names with A-list aspirations. And some are just from the fringes of some People magazine "Where Are They Now?" list, TV stars whose aura sparkles just on Nick at Nite. The hippest partygoers...
...circumstances, the right to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is currently a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in jail: some 80 women are behind bars. Most of them probably just had miscarriages, says Uprety. They were turned in by neighbors or relatives to settle a grudge or to grab property. For lawyer and women's rights activist Sapna Pradhan Malla, however, the struggle is not just about abortion or property rights. "It's a fight to get men to recognize that they are not superior, that women have the same human rights as they...
...happen? Entrepreneurs have certainly come in for their share of the blame. But they are quick to point to other culprits. "Look at those start-ups that followed the advice their investors gave them," says ihavemoved.com's Komninos. "A year ago investors were saying forget profits, go out and grab as many markets as possible. Now, those backers are saying they don't like the way the businesses have developed and won't fund them anymore...
...have ricocheted through the Internet community over the past year. Coming under particular fire: incubators, which invest in Internet companies at seed capital stage, offering them everything from management advice to office space in exchange for equity. Incubators have drawn criticism for funding the unfundable in their rush to grab deals - and then abandoning their charges. Thunders Piol of Pino Venture Partners: "The people behind these incubators that sell illusions should all be put in jail...
...ship, and don't serve them fish. But that's just what the cruise-ship industry is trying to do. The industry built a fleet of leviathans in the '90s, which led to a glut and depressed prices last year. So now it has launched an aggressive campaign to grab a piece of the more than $20 billion corporate-meeting and incentive (or employee-reward) business...