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Word: grasps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embrace, the hurling of dolls across the stage--all of these motions could mean a number of things. Anger? Fear? Rebellion against society? A choreographer's intention can be difficult to decipher. With a company like Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, however, those intentions can be nearly impossible to grasp...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Josa-Jones In 'Wonderland': Curiouser and Curiouser | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...wants to push local control, and in New Hampshire we've certainly learned that that's the way to get rid of as much waste as possible. Because if you're right close to it, you see it, and if you're not there, how can you hope to grasp...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Portraits From Epsom | 2/24/1996 | See Source »

...money. "The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar," he says, "is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH STAKES WINNERS | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...much of the technological world for granted. Much of it is magic to us for all that we pretend to understand it through science. How many of us actually know how a telephone works or a how a videocassette records? Slowly, knowledge and information have been slipping form our grasp...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Kasparov and Humanity | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

Perhaps it is inevitable that Deep Blue or its progeny will become the world chess champion. But let us stave off the future a few moments longer. Let us keep the world within the grasp of an individual. Kasparov, all of humanity is behind...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Kasparov and Humanity | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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