Word: snatched
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...WHEN HE HELPED RONALD REAGAN SNATCH the White House from Jimmy Carter, Jim Baker summed up his view of presidential politics in two words -- "reasonable doubt." As an attorney -- and he was one of the best when he practiced law for a living -- Baker has always been charmed by courtroom analogies. "At the presidential level," he explained, "the stakes are so high, and are seen as so high by the voters, that the trick is to cause people to view your opponent as somehow 'guilty,' as being unfit for the top. Especially if you're the incumbent, if you create...
...Kremlin is still scrambling to snatch Western secrets...
After capitalizing on one break to snatch the first set 6-3, Elmusts fought her way out of a jam serving 3-4 in the second to win three straight games and the match. "That was a key game," Elmuts said about her service game at 3-4, "because every other service game I had that set was quick. It felt good to pull that out." HARVARD, 8-1 at Palmer-Dixon Tennis Courts...
...three goal lead at the half was not enough to preserve a Crimson win. Scotland battled back in the second half scoring five unanswered goals to snatch a two goal lead...
...command economies has led to chaos and suffering that the painful birth of free markets has not yet relieved. Western Europe, though far more prosperous, nonetheless has been experiencing some of its highest unemployment rates since World War II. It has been easy for demagogues to blame immigrants who snatch away the jobs of the native-born -- though that happens far more often in right-wing mythology than in reality. The movement toward west European integration has also provoked a nationalist backlash in some countries. France's Le Pen lately has been drawing cheers by sneering at unity-advocating "federasts...