Word: snag
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...techno-turkey. The machine is off to a rocky start. Sony plans to ship just 2 million units this year, about half its initial projections. Customers queuing to buy one braved a shooting incident outside a store in Connecticut last week. And the lucky few who do snag one may be disappointed, since the PS3 can't play some older games without software upgrades that Sony is promising. (For a full review, go to TIME.com...
...having three players with so much experience and at an international level. They bring a lot of intensity and hard work and things like that to the team and are really good examples to the underclassmen.”Without the three Olympic players, the Crimson still managed to snag an ECAC title, coming back from an underdog position to beat Brown in the finals. Sifers played a key role in this success story as she scored the game- and series-winning goal in double overtime against Clarkson in the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament. She sank the puck...
...Nearly everyone at the event knew that the real reason for the fete was not to honor Stone's award from his hometown film festival, but to help launch Paramount's bid to snag Oscar nominations for his recent 9/11 movie World Trade Center. And to launch Hollywood's annual effort to get around Academy rules that try to limit the increasingly aggressive studio campaigns for Oscars...
Join Harvard luminaries such as Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 for a no-holds-barred opening shindig at the library-turned-office-building. Snag food from the Penthouse Coffee Bar, enjoy live music, and try to figure out why Yo-Yo Club didn’t get its own private space...
...Once the commercial guys like Branson or UP Aerospace perfect a reliable, low-cost spacecraft, the space frontier becomes officially open for business to pursue what until recently seemed impossible: Snag an asteroid into low-earth orbit to mine its minerals. Launch solar satellites to beam down all the cheap power we can use. Build space hotels for family tourism. "Whether it means flying a rocket to an inflatable hotel in low-earth orbit, these are far-fetched, fantasy things that are out there but suddenly become a little more real when you have private entrepreneurs trying to figure...