Word: grab
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...When you come to the United States, you have to focus on what you want," Randolph says. "The opportunity is there, you have to grab what you want...
...Maureen Dowd has an ounce of sense in her chad-addled head, she'll grab the next flight to Vegas...
From a physical standpoint, Kismet isn't much of a robot. It can't walk and grab things, as many robots today can. It doesn't even have arms, legs or a body. What sets Kismet apart is that it has been built with drives and equipped to engage in an array of interactions with people to satisfy those drives. In social terms, big-eyed, babbling Kismet may be the most human robot ever built. And it may be the closest we have yet come to building the kind of robots that populate science fiction and interact with humans...
...chance before Dec. 12 (now a week away) to grab the spotlight's harsh glare, and possibly a place in the partisanship Hall of Fame. Republicans in favor of moving say the Constitution - "each state shall appoint, in such a manner as the legislature thereof directs, a slate of electors" - and federal law backs them up. They say Gore's backup plan is for no slate of Florida electors to go to Washington...
...finish this column, I think I will grab some of the leftover turkey from the fridge and give it to Sadie. Not only because I feel a deep need to get rid of all the turkey in this house before it is served as leftovers for the fourth time, but also because I feel sorry that this year she did not have the chance to steal it from the table herself...