Word: baits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Stockman. Mondale had wanted to meet the President without interlocutors, but at the insistence of White House Chief of Staff James Baker, the candidates were questioned by reporters, not each other. The President's men had figured, wrongly as it turned out, that Mondale would try to bait or rattle Reagan in the hope of making him seem shaky or befuddled, and they wanted to cushion the challenger's shots as much as possible. Baker insisted that the President, who is slightly hard of hearing, be allowed to attach an audio-amplification device to his lectern...
What library officials and scholars agree on, a heart, is that Harvard's reputation as a scholarship university stands directly on the strength of its research library, and that the problems of space and preservation are acute. The size and scope of the system offer tremendous bait to professors being courted by Harvard, Feng says, and scholars here concur...
...seeing people who work very hard. We're not flashy?we buy property and we maintain it, and it appreciates. That's what America is all about." When asked if she was being held to a double standard because of her sex, she did not rise to the bait. Nor at other opportunities did she hide her feminism. When she went to a bank to finance her first House campaign in 1978, Ferraro revealed, she was aghast to learn she needed Zaccaro to co-sign for a loan. In order to establish her technical financial autonomy and thus avoid such...
Chebrikov: Well that clumsy fool took the bait, and he started an anti-Bok campaign, blasting the president for allowing, nay, even rejoicing in the fact that this man Womack was on the Harvard faculty. Buckley took that liberal goo-goo and his fuddy-duddy academic freedom to task, but as he is so accustomed to do he went...
UNFORTUNATELY, the Reagan Administration has not taken the bait. Recently, Argentina's IMF loans fell due and the country was incapable of paying them. The United States finally showed a modicum of support and gave Argentina money, but only after Mexico had taken the lead...