Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Again we are blaming the Japanese for our economic problems. Your article is something else people can grasp as a reason for hate. It comes at a time when there is a tendency to blame Japan for a trade imbalance created by allowing our workers to become fat and lazy. The simple fact is that the United States has been priced out of the world market. In most industries our workers are not so productive as the Japanese, and our technology is not superior...
...king of voodoo rock is ushered in with the calls of a thousand maidens locked forever in his grasp. Dr. John, the Night Tripper, that curious mixture of syncopation, polyphony and mysticism, has returned once again from the world of magic to the world of music in his new album The Sun, Moon and Herbs. Like his three previous efforts, Dr. John's latest album manages to avoid the pitfalls of false profundity, emerging instead as a reflection of the artist...
...Harvard's field position against Holy Cross, and twice Harvard receivers dropped touchdown passes that would have turned the game around. Restic's system, or as much of it as he chose to display last weekend, appears to be basically solid and workable. Foster seems to have a satisfactory grasp of the system's fundamentals, and Restic feels that sophomore Jim Stoeckel, who'll back up Foster today, may understand the system better than any of the Crimson's three other quarterbacks...
Perhaps by November, if the Crimson's injuries heal, Penn may again be within Harvard's grasp, as they were last fall. But for now, McCurdy may have to be content with the Crimson's 18th straight victory over Columbia, a third and deservedly unheralded entrant in the meet...
...often have to buy their supplies from a number of sources-meat from one distributor, fish and seafood from another, produce from still another. Sanford sensed the need for an all-in-one service that would provide a complete line of foods-from goose to mousse. To get a grasp of the gossip and personalities in the industry that he had chosen, he bought three years' back issues of trade publications and studied them from cover to cover...