Word: grasping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...best intentions shouldn’t be grounds to repeal that law of the universe. Regardless, the few certain things in my life are dwindling, so Tiger Woods better keep winning and Quadded freshmen better keep rationalizing. Otherwise, I’ll have no other way to keep my grasp on reality...
...yesterday. Critics also argue that the bill will benefit only urban and university-based communities, he added. Despite these concerns, Galluccio expects the bill to pass in the Senate. “No other industry has the edge that life sciences does in Massachusetts, and people are starting to grasp that,” said Gallucio. “This bill is the beginning of a progressive legislative effort to find industries to replace the manufacturing base that the state once...
...people the wrong way. “As a former denizen of Harvard, I’ve had to learn that a sense of reality doesn’t always flourish in elite institutions,” Ignatieff wrote, concluding, “Bus drivers can display a shrewder grasp of what’s what than Nobel Prize winners.” Ignatieff’s old Harvard colleagues said the article perplexed and disappointed them. In an article billed as an apology, Ignatieff seemed to spend a lot of time attributing responsibility to those other than himself...
...possible to "walk freely" in Baghdad, and that the media was not providing Americans with a full picture of the situation in Iraq. It was soon revealed that McCain had been accompanied on his market trip by two attack helicopters and dozens of American soldiers, calling into question his grasp of the situation...
...from case to case—administrative petitions are typically handled by a smaller executive board, many cases are sent to subcommittees, and still others require the attention of the full Board. These multiple processes more than explain why it is so difficult for students to have a firm grasp of the current system. Says Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, the president of the Undergraduate Council (UC), “People have said that there might be something of a fine educational opportunity [in the Ad Board], which isn’t necessarily fully realized if students aren?...