Because immediate threats to survival were pervasive, those who didn't seize short-term advantage often didn't survive.
A car lying dormant can lead to countless, and priceless, damages: rubber rot, interior mildew, outer rust, engine parts seizing, short circuit wiring, paint bubbling, fiberglass cracking, chrome pitting, brakes freezing, and batteries dying.
Under Securities and Exchange Commission rules, a company is allowed to seize any "short swing" profits made by corporate insiders who buy and then sell shares of a company within a six-month period.
There's no denying McDonald's sets the gold standard when it comes to straight fried potato-ey goodness, but are they ready to seize the short and curly market as well?
The early years, from birth to school, are critical for a child's intellectual, physical and social development, and we aim to seize this short window of opportunity.
His supporters in Congress and the media seize every short-term success, in Washington or Iraq, to flog their opponents as defeatists and lay the groundwork for a stab-in-the-back narrative.
Two turntablists, with different sensibilities -- Marina Rosenfeld used longer, subtler sound sources, while Toshio Kajiwara seized on short, dynamic repeatable bits, treated like riffs -- hit a sweet spot together.
Is McCain fleeing the bank, knowing that federal regulators are likely to seize it in short order and did not want his name attached to a collapsing bank right in the middle of a presidential race where his dad is the trailing nominee and whose own political history is soiled with unethical actions involving a bank collapse during the last great banking crisis?
Peace Seekers and Self Serving Pundits Are Distinct Pundits should ask themselves whether they truly are for peace for all innocents, or simply more concerned with dehumanizing the other side, advancing a one-sided narrative or seizing some short-term tactical political advantage.
It would seem that the convention next week will provide an opportunity for Mr. Kerry, should he figure out how to seize it -- or short of that, a test of Mr. Dowd's theory about President Bush's Democratic opponent.
But it is Iran's own laws that were clumsily and blatantly abrogated for the sake of displaying a political mandate, highlighting new vulnerabilities that all who champion a more democratic Iran can seize upon in the short and long run.
