Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe it or not, until last year upperclass students had to journey all the way back to the Houses for a free lunch. Now Quadlings and Yardlings alike can grab a bagged lunch from Fly-By in Loker Commons...
...pitch. He vetoed the Republicans? tax bill and ritually disparaged it as a measure that would "turn us back to the failed policies of the past" at a time when the economy ? read, his economy ? is running like a dream. And although part of the show demanded that Clinton grab some high ground with a call for compromise ? a rejiggered cut of, say, $300 billion "would be a good bill I would happily sign" ? the tax cut of the century is looking more and more like a problem for the next one. Compromise? "I don't see it as practical...
...been prodding New York real estate mogul (and tabloid fixture) Donald Trump to step forward. The Donald has the celebrity and the brains to be a businessman's Ventura, a perfect placeholder for The Body because he's unencumbered by a demanding constituency or ideology, and might at least grab enough press to keep the dream alive until 2004. Then there were whisperings about Warren Beatty. If he ran as single-issue gadfly (campaign finance reform) and not as an ultra-liberal, his star power could light up a few election booths. But the actor, a long-time Democrat, didn...
Only 5,000 of the old pals were printed at once, intended to serve first-years and anybody else who could grab them. The new pals were handed out to first-years along with their IDs, but 7,000 of the new book pals were printed, meaning that basically any student or affiliate that wants a pal can have...
...them away, but we felt it was going to come and we just had to keep doing what we were doing." Wheaton said. "We didn't need any major changes, just to keep doing what we were doing and just get that little edge on to go grab the goals, and I think that we did that...