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...employees freed the suspect from their grip to walk back, and the suspect allegedly began to flee...
...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...
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...
Repeatedly during our discussion, Rawson takes the conversation off on tangents, and they inevitably involve the revisiting of his past glories. Still, he has a firm grip on the present, and the status of boxing within it. For example, when two women who missed the introductory meeting enter his office, he works hard to pique their interest in boxing, portraying the sport as above all a means to fitness and self-defense. After they leave he explains to me that as a club-level sport, boxing exists at Harvard only as long as there is interest in it; the club...
...presumably to some foreign investors. Small enterprises, which make up 80% of the total, will be completely privatized, while the government will retain some stake in medium- and large-size firms. Beijing has come up with a Deng-style slogan for this devolution of power: "Take a tight grip of the big ones and let loose of the small ones." That process will result in the death of many inefficient firms that have been propped up by government loans and subsidies. "This is the first time the government has been willing to push everyone into the ocean," says Denis Simon...