Word: graspingly
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...since World War II, admitted that the boom has left the free world "short of breath" (see The Shortage of Money). Yet, he declared, "today it is broadly true that the opportunity to attract foreign private capital is there for those nations which have the will and courage to grasp...
...typical qualities mark the third volume of Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples (there is a final volume on The Nineteenth Century yet to come). One quality is control; Churchill manages to grasp a huge and chaotic period (1688-1815) without ever letting a war, a revolution or a leading character get out of hand in the plot. The other quality is a kind of historical cosmopolitanism scarcely to be found in any other writer; Churchill ranges from English county politics to American economic discontents to the last stirrings of the Holy Roman Empire to French...
...retailers have ever had such a flawless grasp of supply and demand as Boston's famed brothers, Lincoln and Edward Filene. The last of the 19th century merchant princes, they made William Filene's Sons Co. into the world's largest specialty store (clothing and accessories only) and a bargain mecca admired from Paris to Peking. But Lincoln Filene, who survived his brother by 20 years, made Filene's into something much more: the hub of a nationwide Federated Department Stores network of 38 outlets with annual net sales of $601.5 million, the fountainhead...
...years ago, the weight of political pressure was for softening the Taft-Hartley law in labor's favor. In fact, the notion of a tougher law seemed unthinkable. But in 1957 the U.S. saw how Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa used the nation's mightiest union to grasp for personal wealth and power. And in 1957 the role of unionism in a peacetime economy was called into question as rarely before. As of this week, there is no longer the slightest chance that Taft-Hartley will be softened-and there is a strong likelihood of more restrictive labor...
...narrow alleyways in the dense Attarine Quarter. Justine is seen from many angles-through the despairing eyes of her first husband, in her own diary, through the cool and critical intelligence of Clea, a woman painter. Nessim discusses Justine endlessly; the Irish narrator seeks to define and grasp her attraction. Clea perhaps comes closest when she says: "After all Justine cannot be justified or excused. She simply and magnificently is; we have to put up with her, like original...