Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staffers knew that inflation and an unsound bond market threatened to put the housing out of the financial grasp of the tenants. Harvard volunteered a plan where an estimated $300,000 in costs per year could be shaved off the project, just enough to put RTH over the top. It was a simple suggestion--but one that was difficult for RTH to refuse. Harvard offered to supply the housing project with free steam, chilled water, and cooling from its own power plant, thus inextricably linking the two. RTH accepted early this year. With that fait accompli, RTH had no choice...
Everything was going well for Kearns; after she received departmental approval, an ad hoc committee under Rosovsky studied the recommendation and, according to two reports, reacted favorably. But just as what Mansfield called "the highest prize in a man's life" was within her grasp, Kearns became involved in legal and romantic affairs that have seriously hurt her reputation here and sidetracked her appointment...
...Ababa under an easy house arrest. Servants still addressed him as "Your Imperial Majesty." As recently as last December, he remarked to two foreign visitors, "I can convoke my ministers, generals and relatives whenever I like." After all those decades of absolute power, the old man apparently could not grasp that he had been rendered absolutely powerless...
...they can give ten minutes to correcting a student's paper. Some teachers doggedly diagram sentences in the hope that the structure of language will sink in and provide a foundation. Others forget about structures and trust that reading literature will ensure, perhaps by osmosis, a better grasp of the language - although the definition of literature now has often descended from Shakespeare and Conrad to Woody Allen and Kurt Vonnegut...
...cheaply before the deals were publicized and grain prices soared. These prices are set in the nation's grain markets, which can fluctuate wildly on the basis of psychological factors, including all manner of rumors and speculations. The many middlemen between the farm producer and the food consumer grasp flimsy excuses to raise prices and increase their already disproportionate share of each consumer dollar spent on foodstuffs...