Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned his attention to such middle-of-the-road concerns as health care, free trade and "reinventing" government. A day after his health-care speech, Clinton flew to Florida for a Nightline-televised national town meeting on health care and for more than two hours demonstrated his formidable grasp of the problem. "It has been a long time since the public has seen him wrestle with the problems of everyday working Americans," said a White House official. "They didn't see it on gays, and they didn't see it on the budget. Now they see it." Mandy Grunwald...
...chair would be too good for him," she says, on the verge of tears. "I don't know how he can sleep at night after what he did. He prays five times a day and then does this? He's made a mockery of his religion. I can't grasp it. It doesn't fit with my image...
...fully grasp this regional psychology, you have to know what it means to be in hurricane country. Crooks and killers inspire fear anywhere, but say the words "Hurricane Andrew" in a crowd on any street in Dade County, and the effect can be devastating...
...sooner did Murdoch lighten his debt load than he began running again. The acquisition of STAR TV, which can reach an Asian audience of 13 million, potentially brings two-thirds of mankind within his direct-to-the-home satellite grasp. To help finance the deal, Murdoch is selling his 50% stake in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, one of the world's most profitable papers...
...slender, well-dressed woman, Benhabib is neither pretentious nor distant. The laity may not easily grasp her work, but her effort to explain the intricacies of research into the thoughts of the great theorists of moral and political philosophy is fascinating...