Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit's basic trouble runs deeper and has been building longer than either the energy or the economic crisis; it is simply that the auto companies, rightly vaunted for their marketing skills, have failed in recent years to grasp and react swiftly enough to the changes taking place in their market...
...human spirit speaking out when silence is prudent. Yet it is demeaning to praise something not because it is well done but because it was done at all. The truth is the novel reads like English subtitles to an epic silent film, always flickering just beyond its grasp. "Paul Gray
Going into the last event, the 200 yd. freestyle relay, Radcliffe led 65-58. The seven-point spread appeared within Maine's grasp as their strong freestylers pulled two strokes ahead after the first two legs of the relay. A determined effort by Nancy Sato, followed by a very strong performance by Laurie Downey, made up the distance and gained enough...
...businessman would be resolved simply by acknowledging that it is impossible to create a show in the same way you would finance a profit-making venture Although this seems the most obvious point that emerges from this somewhat confusingly written book, it is something that Prince never seems to grasp. He just accepts the contradiction. Maybe he figures that's just show business...
...Ways and Means in 1943, Mills has made the committee's intricate tax-writing and budgetary chores his special province. By the time he assumed the committee chairmanship in 1958, he was the undisputed master of revenue legislation in the House. In the years since, his formidable grasp of the U.S. tax code has made committee members and Congress reliant on the chairman and consolidated Mills' power...