Word: bait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst epithet-les apatrides, or stateless men. It was Hallstein's package proposal, aimed at winning French acquiescence to an enlargement of the supranational powers of the Eurocrats and the European Parliament, that touched off the crisis-and De Gaulle's ire-in the first place. The bait was a farm policy worth billions of dollars to French farmers. "Do they think we can be bought like Yemen or Italy?" De Gaulle is reported to have roared when he heard the proposal. The boycott was his answer...
...Bait the Analyst. A typical group that met last month in Bach's stylish sunken Hollywood living room included the doctor and his wife Peggy, the Negro manager of a nearby gas station, an industrial designer and his actress wife, a woman composer in her mid-20s and her boy friend, a young couple married only a year, a marriage counselor, a middle-aged couple, and two psychiatrists. All had been chosen because, although they had neurotic problems, they were not likely to flip under the rigors of their therapeutic talkathon...
...Shark!" is guaranteed to produce 1) instant panic in the local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular dorsal fin slicing the surface...
...Last year prices skyrocketed so much (85%) that sales began to slacken and money grew scarce. Result: Brazil's businessmen have had to live with a severe shortage of capital. Taking advantage of this situation, Brazil's revolutionary government is trying to use one problem as the bait for solving another-hoping that way to solve them both. In an ingenious carrot-and-stick proposition, it is offering a better shot at government credit to companies that hold the price line until the end of the year, giving little chance of badly needed credit to those that keep...
...Tons Empty. Sihanouk, who had called for the conference in the first place in order to guarantee his borders against "encroachments" by Thailand and South Viet Nam, now viewed the talks as a bit of international skulduggery in which his country would be used as "bait" for a fishing expedition by the big fellows. He wasn't biting. The sudden shift came as no surprise, since Snookie had just returned from Indonesia, where he ran into Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. Peking itself has no desire to enter into negotiations over Viet Nam at the moment, as Chou himself...