Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...banality, pitting Larry against the Cap'n in the worn-out opposition between the "Get a real life" and "Live your dream" schools of thought. Overall, however, great lines ("You can't have sex without love!" "What are you, kidding? It's an American tradition!") and the chance to snag a few Butterfingers during the all-out candy fight make it all worthwhile, as Capt'n Neato-Man and his mother pull out all the stops to convert Larry into "Horatio...
...have a difficult time finding a room here this week," says Hilton Hotels CEO Stephen Bollenbach, sitting in the company's flagship Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Of course, he's managed to snag a rather nice...
...that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body counts for less and less. Once, just a few decades ago, women were expected to be sex objects while men were, in psychologist Herb Goldberg's phrase, "success objects." The pretty nurse landed the doctor; cute cocktail waitresses were known to snag bankers and lawyers...
...give Virgin 64 of these new-wave entertainment centers in 12 countries. There are plans for 30 more in the U.S. by 1999. Next week Virgin Atlantic Airways, Branson's iconoclastic transatlantic carrier, adds the lucrative Washington-London route to its expanding U.S. service. Virgin Publishing is poised to snag American book readers. In Europe, Branson is starting up a cut-price airline, Virgin Express; he's part of a group taking over the ailing Eurostar train service under the English Channel; he has launched an over-the-phone life-insurance and health-insurance business in Britain called Virgin Direct...
Florence Griffith Joyner, 36, the 100- and 200-m champion in Seoul, hit a snag in her attempt to make the U.S. team in the 400 m. She has an Achilles-tendon injury that may require surgery and sideline her from qualifying meets over the next two weeks. Meanwhile, Mary Slaney, 37, who holds several American records but has not won an Olympic medal, ran a strong race last week in Oregon and appears ready to contend for a spot on the Olympic track-and-field team...