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...planned "to devote myself to the service of the revolution, wherever it might send me." The students were all talking about Africa, explained Elio Jiménez, a dark-skinned economist. "Because of the blood of our African ancestors, we cannot sit by idly and watch counterrevolutionary bandits snatch victory away from Comrade Agostinho Neto in Angola...
...looking for a close encounter with a Harvard grappler, then tie up with 118-Ib. Wrestler Ray Dominguez on a side court, or try climbing over the back of heavyweight Craig Beling to snatch a rebound off the glass on center-court...
...booking agents. Ford retaliated with a $7.5 million lawsuit against Casablancas for breach of fiduciary trust. Nevertheless, he now has 19 of Ford's models under contract and 16 of Wilhelmina's, for which she too is suing him. Protests Casablancas: "I did not snatch bodies. They are thinking people...
...stay competitive, companies in the valley are scrambling to snatch away their competitors' best engineers and designers. Says President Jerry Sanders of Advanced Micro Devices: "All a guy has to do here if he wants to change jobs is drive down the same street in the morning and turn in a different driveway." As billion-dollar chip makers like Texas Instruments and Motorola, which are based elsewhere, throw more of their weight into the fray, the smaller companies of the valley may ultimately be forced either to merge or sell out to larger firms. That could endanger the vitality...
...feeling that Carter will not be reelected in 1980 is not based upon a belief that the Republican nominee, most likely Ronald Reagan at this point, will snatch the reins of power away from the President in the general election. This is not considered conceivable today. It is, rather, based upon the threat within the President's own Democratic Party. The scenario has as its main cast of characters Carter and his possible Democratic challengers, California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.). One or more of these...