Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Folkman, who is Andrus professor of Pediatric Surgery, is back in the spotlight and defending his honor as the race to use his technique in human trials has hit a snag...
...hotel every night. So would the other high-rolling master builders in this high-desert fantasyland. Like an aging chorine who learns a little French and buys a Chanel frock in hopes of attracting an upper-crust beau, Las Vegas is smarting itself up to snag ritzier visitors...
...recruiting program can be too easy. Sounds funny from someone who couldn't even snag an offer, doesn't it? But the recruiting program means you don't know what it's like to miss the flight to your first interview, and to arrive late, sweaty and exhausted, only to be told you're overqualified, or underqualified, or perfectly qualified, except that the position has already been filled because the president of the company has a nephew who decided to drop out of college after his first semester and needs something...
...impeachment? Flynt says he is just getting even for what Starr has done. Just as Republicans are getting even for Watergate and Bork and Clarence Thomas and Iran-contra. Just as Democrats one day will get even for this tear we are on. No doubt Flynt will snag some philanderers, and they will suffer shame if not loss of office, marriage and family. The drama on Capitol Hill looks more and more like a bad Italian opera, with singers in death throes everywhere. By the last act, the stars are still singing, but soon even they will be dead...
...series of digital snapshots of my recent online travels: what websites I visited; what pages I viewed and for how long; what I bought, downloaded or printed. What's more, every site I visit can send programs called "cookies" down the phone line into my machine to snag this data and either use it to try to sell me something ("He spends time at E! Online? Let's spam him with that Titanic-for-$5 offer!") or sell my "profile" to some other marketer. Yikes...