Word: grasps
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...Clinton gave the best performance--he showed both communicative skills and a grasp of the issues," said U.S. Representative Dave McCurdy (D-Oklahoma), chair of the House Intelligence Committee. "What is important to the public is who best can compete against Bush...The most articulate is Clinton. He has no hesitation, no shuttering...
Tsongas the Dove: his free-trade philosophy is buttressed by a subtle grasp of the Japanese psyche. "We need to build better products and compete better," he explains. "Then we'll be in a position to negotiate. Now we're sitting across the table from people who look at us with disdain." Threats are not his style, but he points out that what the Japanese "fear most is a U.S. consumer backlash...
Sweeney, in her early 60s, is not well enough to take care of her grandsons. She waited for more than two years for the social-services department to rescue them from their mother's destructive grasp. "I was sending food to them by taxi at their mother's house," she tells Legal Aid Bureau lawyer Lisa Watts as they sit in the stuffy waiting room. "They were abused and hungry. They turned into children of the streets." Despite the grandmother's frequent requests, the children were not removed from the home. "((My daughter)) was selling furniture out of the house...
...been absent from Algeria for the past 28 years, since he fled to Morocco after refusing to serve as the puppet President of an army-controlled government. With nearly 75% of Algeria's 26 million people under age 30, it is questionable whether young voters will grasp the symbolism...
...POINT HERE is that JFK, JFK notwithstanding, was not actually Gandhi with a Brahmin accent. Stone has failed to grasp that the causes of the Cold War, and of its bastard child the Vietnam war, were more deep-seated than a shadowy cabal skulking around the Pentagon. In fact, that lets us all off the hook. But America's involvement in Vietnam cannot be explained by a couple of bullets--even magic bullets...