Word: graspings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...rules dictate counting only the top third of the field for points, with a few added sub-asterisked stipulations which are too arcane to grasp without prior knowledge of scoring theory. So, with ten schools sending five racers to the post, as at Dartmouth, only the first 17 finishers count. Scattered brilliance will be rewarded, steadiness becomes obsolete and ski team members may do independent studies on the philosophy of kamikaze under Dr. Carter this spring...
...people will attend. Fewer still will take the time to read about it. And probably no one in this town will grasp its historical significance...