Word: grabs
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Foreign shopping fever reaches even into the country's remote fastnesses. When the brash British raider Sir James Goldsmith calculated that U.S. timberland was becoming a tempting prize, he launched a $500 million takeover bid at San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach paper company in order to grab the corporation's vast forests. As a result of the 1985 takeover, Goldsmith now owns 1.9 million acres of American forests in Washington State and Oregon...
...less violent attempts to arrest poachers proved ineffective. Most of the rhino hunters cross the border from Zambia. Rangers try to stop them without bloodshed, insists Blondie Leathem, 29, who coordinates the Zambezi Valley patrols, but "trying to arrest a man with an AK-47 is like trying to grab a lion with your bare hands. We must often shoot first to protect our lives...
Suddenly, a band of soldiers came closer than ever to destroying Cory Aquino and the country's budding democracy. To many observers, the violent raid on Malacanang by military rightists had all the marks of a last, desperate grab at power. But even if Aquino is not seriously weakened by last week's events, the foiled coup underscored the unwillingness of at least some Filipinos to give their President the time she needs to carry out her reforms. Once the gunfire died down and the smoke cleared, a troublesome question remained: Is the Philippines truly ready for democracy...
Just as athletes grab their discuses and bobsleds to compete in age-old competitions every quadrennium, Harvard summer school students will this week unsheathe their pens, take their seats and hear some grad student shout their equivilent, "Let the Games Begin...
Order a round of Dom Perignon. Put on a party hat. Grab a noisemaker. Get ready to shout "Happy Anniversary!" After all, it was just ten years ago that Americans walked into retail stores and saw the first fully assembled personal computers sitting on the shelves, waiting to be taken home and plugged into the socket. It was the beginning of the computer era for millions of people, ranging from sixth-graders learning to log on, to secretaries spinning out reams of letters, to hopeful authors plugging away at their novels on the screen...