“Up for grabs.”

— Paul Wolfowitz

Describing the future, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. - Eric Schmitt, "Washington at Work; Ex-Cold Warrior Sees the Future as 'Up for Grabs'" The New York Times, December 23, 1991.

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