Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Lee, the debate centers around an attempt to capture the city's Black vote in the upcoming elections. Cambridge's only Black councillor, Saundra Graham, is retiring this year, and several candidates are looking to grab her constituents, he says...
ALMOST a year after his election, President Bush continues to act as if he is running a political campaign. His strategy is to focus on a tremendous national problem, grab a few headlines, and then move on to the next issue without supporting substantive change. Months after Bush's famous press conference from a national park, he has yet to present tough clean air legislation to Congress. And he plans to fund his famed War on Drugs as if it were a minor skirmish...
LAST week, Bush turned the nation's attention to education, by sponsoring a three-day educational summit with 50 governors at the University of Virginia. The politicians talked about problems in the educational system, while trying to grab some positive publicity in the process. If governors keep their promise to follow up on the conference with concrete proposals, however, Bush may find himself with more than he bargained for. He may have to back up his words with actions...
...happened, Gorbachev proposed nothing startling but plenty to intrigue negotiators. His letter was a grab bag of proposals covering the whole gamut of arms control. All told, they suggested not just Soviet cooperation but an extraordinary readiness to compromise to give stalled arms negotiations fresh momentum. Standout example: Moscow withdrew its insistence that curbs on space weapons must be linked to slashes in the number of long-range nuclear missiles...
Jyoti-Jasmine-Jane says at one point: "It is by now only a passing wave of nausea, this response to the speed of transformation, the fluidity of American character and the American landscape. I feel at times like a stone hurtling through diaphanous mist, unable to grab hold, unable to slow myself, yet unwilling to abandon the ride...