Word: grab
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Though Finneran has assaulted any semblance of true democracy in the House in a wide variety of ways, from micromanaging committee actions to single-handedly negotiating the details of the budget with Birmingham last year, he does not alone bear the blame for this shameless power grab. The representatives who find it convenient to have him as a scapegoat also deserve to be censured for destroying any semblance of democracy in order to protect themselves...
...late-summer pork grab...
...Would it? The most obvious problem with any plan involving money "left over" is that Congress, by the time it gets through a year of legislation and the annual late-summer pork grab, hardly ever leaves any money left over (unless putting the current year's spending on next year's books, one of the boondoggles of the post-spending-caps era, counts as saving...
Because many seniors suffer from poor balance (whether from neurological deficits or from the inner-ear problems that increase naturally with aging), it also helps to install grab bars and handrails in bathrooms and along hallways...
...Providence came in here figuring the only way to slow us down was to clutch and grab," Harvard Coach Katey Stone said. "It's not the kind of women's hockey we want to play it looked like it was a men's hockey game with all that physical contact...