Word: grasp
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...make their fortunes, but also to lose them. Those in their prime have been leveled by the subprime, as well as by other unexplained forces, and, as they say, every coin has both heads and tails, and gold melts to water in the fingers of those who too hotly grasp...
...senator vividly observed, if you gave someone a million dollars every day since the birth of Christ, you wouldn’t reach a trillion dollars until sometime after the year 2700. A stimulus package priced somewhere between $800 billion and $1 trillion was not an easy thing to grasp. By its nature, it was the biggest target that any simple-minded or cynical politician ever had to shoot at in the entire annals of American domestic spending...
Allen takes on a few subjects that are beyond her grasp--"F___ You," her rotten egg lobbed at George W. Bush, feels ridiculous and late--but even when she's being stupid, she sounds like an honest pop star. To quote a line from her ballad "Who'd Have Known," "Even though it's moving forward, there's just the right amount of awkward...
...home on Sunday. “You could call [the loss to Princeton] just a bit of a hiccup,” Bajwa said. “I truly believe that if they carry on the way they played today that the National Title is within their grasp.”—Staff writer Barrett P. Kenny can be reached at bpkenny@fas.harvard.edu...
...Kennedy apparently has no better grasp of law than he does of fact. He claims: “Violent resistance to the military occupation is fully legal under international law.” He does not cite any such law, because there is none that privileges violence when nonviolent options are available. (Perhaps he has in mind the first Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention, which Palestinian terror groups routinely violate anyway...