Word: graspings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovered until early this month that it was inaccurate in, of all places, the ninth digit -still quite serviceable for run-of-the-mill computer wizardry, but not the very best the machine was fully capable of. Some infinitesimally remote calculation was slipping ever so slightly out of its grasp. The flaw is so minuscule a problem that most routine users probably would not discover it unless they were weighing electrons, and the Harvard computer is due to be corrected shortly. What, in plain language, is the matter? "I could explain the whole problem to you," said an assistant manager...
...Secretary of the Treasury for the past eleven months, though, Simon has lacked the measured approach that the job demands. He is a quick thinker with an impressive grasp of numbers, but some associates believe that he skims too lightly over issues. Says one colleague...
...Presidents. He was not flaying Congress in the "give 'em hell" style of Truman in 1948; but befitting a more conservative and restrained politician, he was at least giving 'em heck on the hustings. Even if his listeners did not agree with or did not quite grasp his complex economic and energy proposals, they were beginning to warm...
...enemy. In retrospect, we can see that Malcolm's ideological development, his evolution from self-hate to nationalistic self-pride to internationalistic solidarity, was ahead of its time. While it is pointless to whine about "what he could have done" had he not died, it is essential to study, grasp, and put into practice the things he showed us while he lived...
...jobless figure hit a confused and querulous American public just as it was trying to grasp the implications of one of the most astonishing budgets ever prepared by any postwar Administration. A conservative Republican President, who had been talking of a tax surcharge and preaching a balanced budget as recently as November, was now proposing tax cuts totaling $16 billion this year and a record peacetime deficit of $52 billion in the fiscal year that begins this July. Even more remarkable, given the general optimism of past Ford Administration pronouncements on the economy, was the grim and brutally candid...