Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, result from the heady mixture of myth and fantasy--with but a sprinkling of fact--regarding the Soviet Union that Reagan and his advisors have been sniffing for some time. Yet even if one accepts this naively Manichean world-view, it is increasingly obvious that the great arms grab beg is securing few benefits for the U.S. The $8.5 billion Awacs deal, heralded as the coup that would seal the U.S. Saudi alliance, is already looking like a debacle. Within weeks of the Senate's narrow approval of the sale, members of the Saudi ruling family declared that, contrary...
Ridiculous or not, the Crimson broke that streak with a stirring 53-49 overtime victory on Saturday and set itself up for the upset weekend of the season. Beat Penn, grab second place, move on and seek revenge against slumping Cornell...
...Stanford, where he later earned a graduate business degree, the running-shoe market continued to intrigue Knight. Would it be possible, he thought, for Japanese-made running shoes to grab a big share of the U.S. market, just as Nikon cameras were beginning to do in the field of photography? Two years after Knight's graduation in 1962, he and Bowerman went into partnership. They put up $500 each for 300 pairs of Tiger running shoes made by Onitsuka of Japan and stored them in Knight's father's basement. At first they sold them only...
...HAVE NO USE for this book now, and quite possibly you never had, but as soon as you see a copy you'll grab it and turn to page 177. You'll find come a few statistics you probably already know. Male/female ratio of 65:35; average SAT scores of 700 verbal, 675 math--you get the idea...
Down by 13 points with only three events left, B.U. got clutch performances from Craig Mallery, Tom Pollard, and Scott Sawyer to grab second place in the Greater Boston Swimming Championship yesterday at Blodgett Pool...