Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past couple of weeks, Mrs. Clinton has considered trying to steal D'Amato's thunder by going voluntarily before his committee. That, some White House aides think, would be the climax of the hearings, and then the sensation would be over. But that scenario supposes, maybe too hopefully, an end to discoveries like Carolyn Huber...
Late pressure brought Colgate back within three, but Grancio's superb defense on Foyle preserved the Harvard lead. In one particularly exciting sequence, Grancio, pushed the bigger, stronger Foyle away from the basket and reached around him to steal the entry pass...
...first semester of senior year slipped by unnoticed while we struggled beneath mounds of applications for fellowships, graduate school, or (the horror! the horror!) gainful employment. Between labs and thesis research, we occasionally found time for coursework. Now if we're not careful, our finals and our theses will steal away what precious months we have left...
...fatal mistake. Rather than concentrate solely on Iowa, he is campaigning hard in several other early but lightly contested elections in the hope of stockpiling delegates elsewhere. The strategy has a price: Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a Dole backer, has criticized Gramm for campaigning in Louisiana, which plans to steal the limelight from Iowa by holding caucuses a week earlier, on Feb. 6. Gramm recently spent a weekend in Alaska, where he courted voters by himself...
...awful showdown. The powerful elderly and nursing-home lobbies will be fighting for Medicaid expansions to serve seniors. The only pot of money big enough to raid will be education, a state's biggest expense, which averages 30% of state spending. If state legislatures bow to pressure and steal from the classroom, communities will have to raise property taxes to protect their local schools...