Word: grasp
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Katzner, after having spent the afternoon spreading the FAST gospel at Shea Stadium, gave an earnest exhortation on why he wants "economics kept outside of the chalk lines." He also confided that a chance for national exposure barely slipped from his grasp this morning when he was bumped from Good Morning America in favor of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
McCue's main worry is the trail of tuition dollars that will drift out of his grasp as the CRP students troop across campus. Allison, on the other hand, has so many administrative knots to untangle that he sees the millions needed for expansion as only one element of "a classic list of problems." First, he and his faculty must decide how to integrate CRP into the Public Policy program while reassuring students such as Scott Muldavin who say, "CRP people are concerned that they will be delegated to second banana over at the Kennedy School." Echoing McCue, Allison says...
Given the gaffe at the U.N., the flow of bad economic news and the uncertainty about Carter's effectiveness, the President obviously does not have an unbreakable grasp on the nomination. But then, with the race in its early stages, neither does anyone else in either party. As of this week, there are still 41 primaries and caucuses to go. The summer conventions are a long, long...
Since the new opening of China three years ago, Western businessmen have faced a Great Wall of ignorance about that country's industries. Even some government ministers did not have a firm grasp on the situation inside the country. Last July, when economic figures were released for the first time in nearly 25 years, Chinese government officials admitted privately that some of the numbers came from declassified reports of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...
...Koko is asked to give the sign for drink and makes the proper gesture but touches her ear instead of her mouth, Psychologist Patterson assumes not that the gorilla has made a mistake but that it is joking. If Koko smiles when asked to frown, she is displaying a "grasp of opposites." Say the Sebeoks: "Real breakthroughs in man-ape communication are the stuff of fiction...