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Suddenly that native rose at the bedside, and bent over me with his right hand lifted and a dirk in it aimed at my throat; but Luigi grabbed his wrist, pulled him downward, and drove his own knife into the man's neck.
But they also grabbed market share from big complacent dailies and awakened the sleepy local news trade.
Here, as she did in The Second Shift , she's grabbed a social problem out of the air that ordinary people groan about a great deal and scholars and cultural critics generalize about equally ineffectually.
"Alone among the guru class, he grabbed hold of business and made it do and say extraordinary things" (Michael Lewis, the New York Times Book Review ). They emphasize Drucker's philosophical influences (he studied Kierkegaard and political theory), his vast oeuvre , and his long-standing doubts about free markets.
Chickening out, I visited the computer section of my local bookstore and grabbed a copy of the friendly yellow Linux for Dummies . But the cashier all but refused to sell it to me.