Word: stealingly
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...argument at this time would be to tie any kind or level of industry discussions-coalitions to much more active discussions at the industry level, which are currently perceived to be blocked by anti-trust laws. When I say anti-trust exemption, I don't mean a license to steal. I mean that we ought to devise ways of letting companies talk to each other about how to restructure an industry which leaves them exempt during that time from prosecutions...
...watched one of the weakest offensive displays in recent history. It wasn't Cornell, which needed a victory to work its way into the Ivy race. It wasn't Harvard, which was lucky to escape Ithaca with a tie. It wasn't even the referees, who tried to steal the spotlight by throwing their little yellow handkerchiefs onto the turf on one out of three plays...
...actor cannot simply put himself on display as a star can, assured that his radiance will attract every eye. He must be a wily mendicant for the audience's attention, making up in craft what he lacks in glamour. He cannot just play a scene; he has to steal it. In a decade at the R.S.C., Kingsley proved himself the deftest of second-story...
...Dodgers had trouble getting men home from third. In the fourth inning, with Russell on first and Marshall on third, a delayed double steal failed as Marshall was run down between third and home. Before the successful L.A. uprising in the fifth inning. Fernando Valenzuela reached third on Maddox's error. But Steve Sax grounded out to second and Brock hit a slow bounder to Mike Schmidt at third, who gunned down Valenzuela at the plate...
...week began peacefully enough in Manila. The government had purposely avoided head-on confrontation with opposition demonstrators and had even tried to steal some of their thunder by staging a rally of its own in Makati, Metro Manila's financial district. A special bulletin signed by the vice governor of the Metropolitan Manila Commission (Imelda Marcos, the President's powerful, unpopular wife, is the governor) was distributed to commission employees. "Attendance is a must," it decreed. "Record of attendance must be submitted to personnel management .. . Do not wear uniforms...