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...basketball, if you can't put the ball through the hoop, you lose. Even small children and certain species of dog generally have a firm grasp on this self-evident truth...
...human Washington, President George, had a better grasp of the nature of his countrymen and chopped the house plans to one-fifth the original size. And the name was downgraded from "President's palace" to "the President's House." A few years after its completion, the no-nonsense Americans were calling it as they saw it--the White House. Still, George Washington, with a lingering bit of the kingly itch, made sure the house would be grand enough for the Chief Executive of the new Republic. Even the ascetic New Englander John Adams, the new nation's second President...
...machine error, of course Harris would use that discretion of hers to include a manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...
...problem will be establishing his grasp of the statewide issues," DiNitale says. "No one knows what his gubernatorial position would...
Harvard was ahead late in the fourth quarter against both Cornell and Penn but could not grasp victory, though...