Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ames seemed almost within the mole hunters' grasp, but he slipped away. In January 1990, Dan Payne was assigned to begin a two-month training course. No one was brought in to replace him. When he returned in March, he was pulled off the Ames investigation and sent overseas to pursue another lead in the mole hunt that proved to be a wild goose chase...
...Cabinet Minister in charge of the Reconstruction and Development Program, the government's ambitious effort to improve the lives of the nation's impoverished black majority. Naidoo reports progress-196,000 new houses are in the pipeline-but he acknowledges that results have been slow. Mandela repeatedly demonstrates his grasp of practical details. For example, he advises Naidoo to look into a low-cost housing scheme emphasizing self-reliance that he recently observed in Namibia...
While the Crimson may have achieved that modest goal yesterday, the end result was nevertheless all-too familiar: a frustrating loss, 7-5, in a game which Harvard appeared to have firmly in its grasp...
...that new faces and pocketbooks will continue to patronize your business: Use the schools... Every decade there is a whole new crop of shining young faces taking their place in society as adults...How else would you get these potential customers and future leaders together?... Schools are an opportunity. Grasp...
...take pictures of Flee while she sleeps. Once she becomes aware of this activity, Flee grows ever more frantic trying to get a glimpse of the photographs, which Jarred refuses to show her. Only when we see that these photos are of isolated body parts do we fully grasp the nature of this violation: it is a kind of dismemberment that is deeply disturbing...