Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mark out time with our conventions, but we are not the masters of our time. We do not know when we will exit or why. We plan for the future without any guarantee. Gabriel's death reminds us of the precious grasp we have on our lives...
...cooperation with the Communists. Party leaders seemed irritated by the announcement but said they would talk it over with the general, who was elected to the Duma last month despite his party's dismal showing. If Lebed and the Communists combined forces, the presidency would be well within their grasp...
...thing, given her three sessions a week with a world-renowned feminist therapist, is that she doesn't seem to grasp how thoroughly dehumanizing the princess business really is. Her interview on bbc last month was full of husky-voiced self-pity and dewy gazes from a coquettishly down-tucked head. But there wasn't the slightest awareness that her problems go beyond an adulterous husband and an emotionally disabled mother-in-law. She even seems to think the reason Charles dislikes her is that she outshines him at what she calls their "work," meaning presumably the daily round...
DIED. JAMES RESTON, 86, journalist; in Washington. Originally a sports reporter, Reston's grasp of global gamesmanship led him to the New York Times. His first job: correspondent during the London blitz. He went on to win a Pulitzer chronicling the birth of the U.N. and, in 1953, became the paper's Washington bureau chief. As a thrice-weekly columnist, he gained fame for his deft prose, solid reporting and enviable access, but the latter often came at a price. In 1961, at President John F. Kennedy's request, he withheld what he knew of plans involving an obscure Cuban...
...again and again. The stage that seemed to have so much potential becomes a nuisance when actors turn around and throw unprojected, inaudible lines to about a third of the audience at a time. Every lighting change is accompanied by a melodramatic clang, and the actors have a precarious grasp on their lines...