Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be more difficult to do it. He not only has the determination, the willingness and the readiness to knock heads and get unpleasant things done, he also has the experience of the last four years in getting inflation down. No one else can rival his grasp of the overall picture and the details...
Allen's playing is more difficult to grasp than Rubalcaba's--her playing is more harmonically complex and less predictable. She is also a less flashy player, although she possesses considerable technical agility. Her tendency to improvise relatively freely of bar downbeats, as well as her use of parallel octave lines and other mannerisms, suggest a strong Bill Evans influence. Her music flows a little more freely than Rubalcaba's, at least in these performances, and she introduces elements of chaos and abstract texture that the other trio never attempts...
Annan: When we were with his colleagues, he talked for a long time. He had no talking points. He obviously had a full grasp of the facts...
...Recently, Peking has made it a point to proclaim its delight at the prospect of the U.S.'s depleting its resources in a major land war in Asia. That prospect may seem less pleasing today. Where the Communists almost had victory within their grasp last spring, the U.S. now bars the way and stands ready to repel any other attempted aggression. Unless Peking and Hanoi withdraw from South Vietnam--and lose face throughout Asia--it is the Communists themselves who risk being bogged in wars that they can neither afford nor end. Their blunder came as no surprise...
...essentially starting over again," Harriman said. "I think Bates is at a crossroads. There's some talent, and some of it is untapped. I want to create a comprehensive program where players and coaches are on the same page. It will have to be simplistic so everyone can grasp it, but it has to have enough [dimensions] to pose other teams problems...