Word: bait
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr has spent seven months stalking his quarry; last week he gently laid in the bait. Lewinsky's testimony for six hours on Thursday did not leave much room for escape, for quibbles over what constitutes a sexual relationship or charges that she had an overly rich fantasy life. She told the 23 grand jurors that during a period of more than 18 months, she was alone with the President many times, that they did indeed have a sexual relationship and talked about how to conceal it. She told them about the dark-blue dress from the Gap. And while...
...register of how carefully Lucy tries to be in negotiating the re-entry into fame that Syd had mapped out for her in the pages of Frame. Is Syd romancing Lucy merely to secure a career coup, or is it vice versa--the magazine deal as an attractive bait for what is fundamentally an erotic seduction...
...mere possibility of such a Clinton-Jiang agreement has officials in Taipei frazzled. China hopes to use better relations with the U.S. as bait, to entice Washington into a joint effort to put pressure on Taiwan. Taiwan is worried that some arm-twisting could be coming. "We believe the U.S. should not discuss the three nos with Beijing," says Chen Chien-jen, director-general of the Government Information Office in Taipei. Adds Vice Foreign Minister David Lee: "We don't want this written down because we don't want Beijing to interpret what independence means...
...days in the aquarium are coming to an end. Soon, there won't be glass walls anymore. After four years in here, I can see many baits on hooks--energetic fishermen trying to take me back to the vast ocean where I once swam. The only question now is which bait to bite...
These include using a bait and switch tactic whereby they lure students in with high-profile faculty and then allow students to graduate "without seeing the world-famous professors or tasting genuine research...