Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While we are still hovering inches off the ground, bodies are heaved onto the chopper floor and stacked on top of each other, the wounded sitting or lying against the dead. A sergeant yanks off two unwounded soldiers who have managed to jump on and desperately grab the door. As we move forward heavily, as if drugged by the new weight, one of the gunners pushes off another stowaway. He sprawls on the ground a yard beneath us. The one interloper who did make it into the craft does not talk. He sits in the doorway, legs swinging...
Even if the Saudis agree to reduce production, other OPEC countries might still jump in and attempt to grab a larger share of the market and boost their own production. Such is the severity of the current strains within OPEC. Says Marshall Thomas, markets editor of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly: "If they don't meet and act fairly soon, they are going to have a problem holding them selves together...
...factor that hurt Harvard throughout the contest but more so in the first half--was the squad's inability to box out and grab defensive rebounds. Except for Carrabino's under the basket tenacity. Harvard could not prevent Yale from capitalizing on second or third shots. In the game's opening 20 minutes the Elis tallied 12 points off their offensive boards...
...single member of the board was willing to recommend a default during a discussion of the topic at this month's meeting. Lawrence Brainard, a senior international economist with Bankers Trust Co. in New York City, warns that default would set off "an unholy scramble" to grab the few Polish assets in the West. Unlike Iran, which had an estimated $12 billion in gold and bank deposits that was frozen by the U.S. Government in 1979, Poland has relatively little to offset its huge debt. Any effort to attach its ships or jetliners that happen...
...Crimson thinclads are going to have to do a lot more merely place, however, if they are to surpass talent-laden Princeton and grab the Ivy League laurels. Last weekend the Grange and Black squad narrowly defeated Harvard in the tri-meet with Yale in New Heven to take a tenuous hold on Ivy supremacy, third- and fourth-place finishes, the league title will be convincingly theirs...