Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the mike during the Circle of Friends finale who almost overshadowed the nominee every time he thrust his fist upward with the show-biz earnestness of a crooner. Mostly as a lark, the journalists formed a company called Snarling Jackass Productions, each putting up $250, to try to snag Roger a record contract. They persuaded him to cut a demonstration tape in Nashville, but after the election Roger sniffed the chance at a better deal and dropped them. Last month he signed a $200,000 contract with Time Warner's Atlantic Records to record his first album...
...committees who can't snag us singers...
PRESIDENT BUSH'S DESIRE TO SPEED UP NORMALIZATION OF relations with Vietnam hit a snag just before Senator John Kerry's delegation left for Hanoi. Kerry was going to deliver a letter to the Vietnamese all but lifting the economic embargo. But ANN MILLS GRIFFITHS, executive director of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, threatened to go very public with her opposition on the eve of the mission. Griffiths objects to normalizing relations before a fuller accounting of American prisoners and casualties is made. The White House backed down, substituting an innocuous letter...
...Harvard College, for short) holds the lion's share of power. Every faculty is beholden to the Corporation. All monies are invested according to the mandates of the Corporation. In short, if you want to get something done at Harvard, the best way to do it is to snag one of the seven seats on the Corporation...
Radcliffe Ruggers Take Second in Ivies; Men Snag...