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Word: grips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true that I don't have as good a grip on the problems facing China as I do on, say, the problems facing the New York Knicks. Still, I feel like I have enough to conclude that there's some pretty bad stuff going on over there. And I'm confident that at least some of that bad stuff is being organized by the government...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: A Saturday in the Yard--With Company | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

...interchanges between characters or delicate exfoliations of complex relationships. Producers want the bragging rights that come with classy literary adaptations--especially as the awards season looms. They also want to make movies about figures like Catherine, who can be seen as both feminist victim and, once she gets a grip on her emotions, feminist heroine. But they don't want to pay the price for these desires: embracing the intricacies and ambiguities of their sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MISPLACED AFFECTIONS | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...employees freed the suspect from their grip to walk back, and the suspect allegedly began to flee...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Twice Nabs Theft Suspect | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

...fees were unreasonable, and it was unfair-the more erudite of us even used the term monopoly. But as mere high school students, our voices just weren't heard. It took another test-maker, ACT Inc. of Iowa City, to finally cry out against ETS's vice-like grip on educational testing...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: ETS: Educational Testing Scam | 10/7/1997 | See Source »

Alas, the two-moon system could not last long--at least on the computer. Held so tightly in the grip of Earth's gravity, the inner moon eventually grew unstable, crashing into the digital planet within 100 years. If not for this, generations of real Earthlings might have learned to dance by the light of the silvery moons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOOD NIGHT, TWO MOONS? | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

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