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According to the Daily, demonstrators marched across campus chanting, "Print facts, not slander" and "Print the news, don't bait the Jews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Michigan Editorials Called Anti-Semitic | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

...entice the hackers to spend more time on the network, Stoll created a Trojan Horse of his own called "SDI Net," which documented fictitious military information. The hackers took the bait and spent more than two hours reading the material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Astronomer Breaks Spy Ring | 3/4/1989 | See Source »

...prep-school puerile. Several weeks ago, at a private dinner at the Chinese embassy, the President-elect brought a novelty gag, a dollar bill attached to a long fishing line that appears to be free for the taking on the floor. When a waiter went for the bait, Bush quickly snatched it out of reach. Bush and his host, the Chinese Ambassador, found the gag great fun. Barbara, whose humor tends to be verbal, rolled her eyes and turned to the Ambassador: "You're going to have your work cut out for you with the new Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silver Fox | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Kraft also offers Philip Morris a strong presence in the international markets that provide about a quarter of the food company's revenues. While Philip Morris' cigarettes are widely available throughout the world, its General Foods grocery products are not. Finally, Kraft has a $1.2 billion cash hoard, tempting bait for any raider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fights on Wall Street | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the technology continues to spread. Rods and reels now sport built-in microcomputers and liquid crystal display screens. Ryobi America of Bensenville, Ill., for example, makes a $95 bait-casting reel with a computer that monitors the spool's rate of spin during casts and adjusts it as necessary to keep the line from getting snarled. Daiwa of Garden Grove, Calif., sells a $100 spinning reel with a screen that tells how far the line is cast and how fast it is reeled in. The $695 Cannon Digi-Troll, sold by Michigan-based S & K Products, not only drops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Fish Don't Stand a Chance | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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