Word: graspingly
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Tangible Results. Troy's strength as a muckraker rests not in his prose but in his grasp of Oklahoma affairs and his vigor in finding new facts. He talks easily on such matters as the concentration of private wealth in the hands of relatively few Oklahomans and the amount of state tax paid by oil companies in 1973. While doing legwork in the state capital, Troy is a one-man information clearinghouse. He gets tips from other newsmen whose papers are cool to exposes. Legislators and their aides regularly quiz him on state issues...
This kind of equivocating is a safe and workable stance for the moment. Gilman would surely prefer to find an alternative--any alternative--to having to face an impeachment vote. But as that vote draws closer, Gilman wants to make sure he has a solid grasp on the feelings of his district's voters before taking a public position...
...naked power politics, as is Soviet foreign policy. "He is a troublemaker out of the 19th century," snaps a ranking French Gaullist. In fact, Kissinger has created a novel personal approach to diplomacy fashioned primarily out of self-confidence, charm, boundless energy, humor when applicable, and an ability to grasp what Kissinger, the once?and perhaps future?scholar, calls "the historical process...
...unfamiliar problem; how to produce as many cars as the public wants. "Steel is tight, chemicals are tight, fabricated parts are extremely tight," complains William V. Luneburg, AMC's blunt-spoken president, who sometimes badgers suppliers personally for quick deliveries. "When you have the opportunity in your grasp and you cannot make it materialize, it is a bit frustrating." Still, he concedes, "the wheel of fortune is turning right at the moment...
...drama that is developing slowly but that moves inexorably to an unmistakable conclusion. Little by little the tentacles of Western society creep further from the cities into the countryside, strangling off the traditions inherited from the Indian past. It is because of its geography that Bolivia has eluded the grasp of modernism for as long as it has. Its brutal altiplano in the west, its gaping valleys in the center and its impassable jungles in the east have made efficient communication and transportation almost impossible until very recently. But, with economic progress and the importation of technology from abroad...