Word: grabbings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...than old-fashioned facilities that tiny (80,000 tons a year) Roblin earned a 47% return on its net worth last year. Though continuous casting accounts for only 1% of the nation's 131 million-ton-a-year steel output now, some analysts predict that the system will grab 60% of U.S. production...
...form of ideological indoctrination. In short, many students in Eastern Europe are surprisingly like U.S. campus rebels. In Prague a fortnight ago, 400 educators, including a dozen Westerners, met in a conference sponsored by Czechoslovakia's Red regime to talk about why the Communist culture fails to grab the kids...
Even Terrell was smart enough to see that he could grab better if he didn't risk a savage beating in the ring...
...memory like a Pentagon computer," says Schlissel. "Carries it all in his head. Twenty, 30 projects at once. Never forgets a fact, never misses a trick." With his office in his head, Merrick is totally mobile. On an after-dinner impulse, he may dart into the street, grab a cab, race to Kennedy Airport, jump on a jet to London, snap up a property in Manchester, get back to New York in less than 48 hours...
Offers poured in from more than 40 cities, as close as suburban Greenwich, Conn, (where President Funston lives), and as distant as San Francisco, all eager to grab the nation's largest securities market. Even if the city calls off the tax increase, the exchange seems inclined to move at least part of its operation. With computers, such work as data processing, stock clearing, accounting and records storage can be located anywhere...