Word: grasping
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...daughter made it very clear that I just didn't get it. Why did I not grasp that one couldn't be seen in the girls' locker room sporting those packaged bikini underpants from Jockey or Hanes? Granny pants is what some kids call them. "Mom," my daughter wearily explained, "basically, every girl at school is wearing a thong." The only viable alternative, one that my daughter favored, was an item called boyshorts, a low-riding pair of short shorts loosely, or should I say tightly, based on Britney's stagewear. Either way, it was going...
...Huskies made the game’s final moments interesting by scoring two late touchdowns to pull to within eight with one minute remaining. On the ensuing onside kick, Northeastern looked to be in business for a brief moment as the ball slipped through Balestracci’s grasp...
Another easy-to-grasp idea about incentives is that people should not be allowed to consume resources for free. It makes little sense to let polluters impose all sorts of costs on our economy by degrading our air, water, natural resources and public health, and then pass the bill onto taxpayers. In fact, the Superfund program used to levy a fee on the worst polluting companies to clean up the same sites that those companies had egregiously contaminated. This improved market incentives by ensuring that polluters did not get a free ride. But the Republicans in Congress...
...over which grow ivy and morning glory so thick that the wires are no longer visible. The ivy hangs in a curtain around her porch and climbs up to the top of the house, twining itself around her chimney. Her walls are crumbling under the ivy’s grasp, and she repairs the holes in the windows with plastic...
Last year Dawson attended Northwestern University as a recruited freshman for the Big 10 school. He chose to redshirt his freshman season—an option not available in the Ivy League—in order to get a firm grasp of the offense...