Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spot in the Labor Party by successfully presenting Wilson's unpopular deflationary policies as the only sensible way to deal with the "mess" left over from 13 years of Tory rule. Though self-taught in economics (his education ended at the secondary level), Callaghan has a thorough grasp of world finance, and he explained the necessity of tough measures in a common-sense way that appealed to the Laborites. He is thus invaluable to Wilson as the most effective defender of the government's policies. By a narrow 122,000 votes out of 6,300,000 ballots...
MORE SPEECHES FROM THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WILL BE FOUND IN MONDAY'S SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT gestion, but I do express my alarm at our failure to grasp and grapple with basic administrative problems in our system of justice. One able and and hard-working federal judge was recently moved to say that unless we meet and master these problems, our system of justice, as we know it, will disappear...
...Hornblower backs up, someone called Vic Gatto, had a fine day too. On the third play from scrimmage, Gatto burst up the middle, slipping out of the grasp of one or two second team linemen, then shot into the clear and went all the way, 70 yards, for a score. Second-stringers claim their defensive signals got fouled...
...Suffield, afterward got a job as a page on Wall Street, where he developed an enthusiasm for finance. At night he studied accounting. At Manhattan's Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery, where he was an accountant for eight years, Geneen became known as a hard-driving young man whose grasp of business, recalls Lybrand Partner Philip Bardes, "went far beyond the balance statement." Geneen next moved through corporate-finance jobs at American Can Co., Bell & Howell and Jones & Laughlin Steel, combing their ledgers, as a colleague of those years later put it, like "a bloodhound on the trail...
...from the Cuban brink, both sides found that a political and military equilibrium had been reestablished. "A geographical status quo that had seemed too abnormal for endurance had endured so long, at last, as to begin to seem normal." Eastern Europe was working itself free of Moscow's grasp; trade between the Europes was eroding the Iron Curtain; ideology on either side was losing its relevance. "As with the conflict between Christendom and Islam centuries earlier," concludes Halle, "the slow churning forces of secular change were transforming the conditions on which the cold war had been based. The cold...