Word: grasping
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...most of the time since then, U.S. officials have accused Netanyahu of foot-dragging. But gradually, after the September miniwar between Israeli and Palestinian security forces, the Israeli Prime Minister began to grasp the price of constantly frustrating Palestinian aspirations, thereby incurring U.S. and international disapprobation. At the same time, buoyed by Palestinian and foreign support that followed the September conflagration, Arafat turned tough and instructed his negotiators to remain steely in the Hebron talks. The result was that the Palestinians won a number of concessions. Most significant, the Israelis gave up their insistence on obtaining an explicit right...
...United States, for that matter—don’t ever have to endure this process in the first place. Tickets to Patriots games, like nearly all pro football games in major cities, are impossibly tough to acquire. Many of them remain in the permanently stiff grasp of season ticket-holders from the beginning of the preseason...
...cliché that is also simultaneously a revolt. To do it requires the ability not to do anything else, a special challenge in the summer before one’s senior year, when so many Harvard students exit internships with job offers in hand. Friends and classmates struggled to grasp the concept; “going on a trip” didn’t seem like much of a plan. “For what?” people would ask. “What are you doing? Is this for your thesis?” Matt and Andrew...
...concept may have been difficult to grasp in part because Matt and Andrew might be this school’s least likely candidates for rebels against the Harvard grind. Last spring, when Matt ran for Undergraduate Council president, in a campaign even his predecessors agree was the best organized in UC history, Andrew was his number-one asset. As campaign manager, he woke up at seven every morning to prepare a schedule for Matt and his running mate, Clay T. Capp ’06. He organized an army of supporters to escort Matt and Clay around the dorms...
...campaign, but he said he left the blitz knowing more about them than when he started. “I totally understand,” Matt said when I asked him if he was serious. “It doesn’t seem like you could really grasp anything, but you can. You definitely learn about people...