Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Compared with Watergate, a scandal like Teapot Dome was onedimensional, a routine political corruption played out at high levels. Watergate was crucially different. It was not a grab for mon ey, but for power; that distinction, in a democracy, is everything. Moneygrubbing is unsavory. Power grabbing, the plot to steal an election (which, weirdly enough, was already safely assured), was infinitely more serious. It was an attack on the American idea. That is important because if America loses its idea, it becomes merely sordid and fallen and dangerous...
Most analysts, though, had expected Braniff to last at least through the summer so that it could grab vacationing passengers with cut-rate fares. But the airline could not wait for the summer traffic. Passenger load factor, a measure of how much money a given flight is making, had dropped to 45% and less, whereas Braniffs planes needed 70% to meet cash-flow requirements. Said Senior Vice President Sam Coats: "We were way below water." Not even the $11 million that Eastern Air Lines paid three weeks ago to buy the rights to fly some of Braniff's Latin...
...kind of surprised. No--it's not that the Red Sox are leading the division. They've been there before and can be counted on to provide their annual el-foldo in due time. The Tigers in second shouldn't grab you either. After all, any team with a manger named Sparky...
...opera, the most enthusiastic acclaim goes to the stars-prima donnas and leading men who troop out from behind the curtain to bask in the bravos. By the time the conductor finally gets his turn, many patrons have already rushed up the aisles to grab a taxi. Last week in Los Angeles, though, the audience reserved its loudest cheers for the maestro: Carlo Maria Giulini, 67, returning to the operatic stage after an absence of 14 years...
Perhaps because Ronald Reagan doesn't read all that much, he cares more about what television shows than what print says. He and television both know that facts are heavy, arguments confusing, charts boring; to grab the biggest audience, give your story the human touch. This is "for-example" journalism and politics, which frequently mislead...