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Meanwhile, if the women's ice hockey team can hang on to its league-leading position, it'll snatch its first Ivy crown...
American tourists have happily profited from the falling pound. Thousands have jetted off to London to snatch up woolens, suits and china at bargain prices. Just before New Year's, Harrods, the stylish department store, took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to attract U.S. customers to its | annual post-Christmas sale...
...Wood no-hitters, and boxscores full of names like Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and Fred Merkle. Indeed, Ritter introduces many players with excepts from Spalding's Base Ball Guide circa 1909, John J. McGraw's My Thirty Years in Baseball, a scene from The Great Gatsby, or a snatch of Carl Sandburg poetry...
Another company might have cut its losses and dropped the Junior, but by redoubling its efforts IBM ensured itself a share of the $2.8 billion market for home computer systems. Corporate pride was also at stake in the effort to snatch victory from the jaws of what was shaping up as defeat. "IBM didn't like having this black eye," says Egil Juliussen, chairman of Future Computing. "They wanted to figure out a way to help the machine along, and they did." #151; By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
Russell said he wants the City to exercise its right of eminent domain, snatch the Concord Ave. property from the University at market cost, and build public housing for the elderly or low-income families...