Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somehow, Song said, she managed to break free from her husband's grasp and fleethe apartment, the report said...
...week we will relive the excitement of the first Apollo moonwalk. We will argue what it all added up to for the average person. This was not like Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system, which meant a new freedom for all Americans. Apollo's meanings are more difficult to grasp but may be more important. Historian Melvin Kranzberg insists that "man's most abiding quest is the effort to understand himself in relation to the cosmos...
...Throughout this process, Candace impressed everyone...with her impressive grasp of crucial human resources issues, such as benefits and compensation," she wrote...
There is a dangerous accumulation of evidence that Clinton operates by the phony physics of virtual reality (appearances, conjurations, evaporating threats, a governance of attitude and feeling) and has not a cold, hard grasp of plain fact. One has a suspicion that Clinton does not know that the reality of reality always wins. Ultimately, in the courtroom of history, life is fair -- and often brutal...
Nonetheless, the church still has not designed an effective nationwide policy to remedy its troubles. While pedophilia is considered a grievous sin, it is also seen as disobedience to the celibacy rule. The American Catholic Church does not even have a grasp of the numerical dimensions of the situation. How many pedophilia cases is the church dealing with? "I don't know," says Bishop Kinney. "We don't have the statistics yet." Each of the 188 dioceses in the U.S., he explains, is its own de facto principality, reporting directly to Rome. Thus, Kinney says, the U.S. bishops' organization cannot...