Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forced the switch to the current 12-meter boats in the 1950s. If the Australian syndicate wanted to switch to Sunfish, rafts with bedsheet sails, or Spanish galleons, they could. Switching the Cup to a board sailing, wave-jumping competition would do much to bring Cup racing within the grasp of everyone who ever said "I think I could do that...
...chuggy diesel motors used in London have been replaced with smoother-running gasoline engines. Although the London cabs have an ungainly body style, passengers appreciate their contour seats, high roofs and wide doors. Says one American visitor to Jidda: "One sits high in the back, with handles to grasp as the driver works his way through the city's horn-honking, madcap traffic...
...chief] and of the publisher in the great beyond," Makepeace learns. Will she learn anything else, like how to write a good lead or tell the difference between comptroller and controller? More important, will she ever get her Big Story into print? In the end, she begins to grasp the cynic's first rule of journalism: the most important byline is the one on the paycheck...
...broken hearts, the lies, the misunderstandings, the misinterpreted love, fit into Rohmer's theme about hard-to-grasp amour. The adults, especially Marion, delude themselves until fantasies become reality. They never learn to accept the truth--the beach at off season for them is a time to be carefree, to forget the world around them. When they get too tired or too bored, they simply leave in search of yet another chance to live in a world made of dreams...
Generally blatant corruption at ground level appears to have given way to moral ambiguity and gray areas, where the line between private interest and public responsibility is not always recognized. By and large, traditional power has tended to slip from the grasp of special-interest groups. Pulp and paper companies no longer control Maine; Anaconda Copper has long since closed its "hospitality rooms" in Montana's state capital at Helena; Florida's rural "pork chop gang" must now share power with the arroz con polio and corned-beef crowds, and it has been quite a while since anyone...