Word: baits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least a compelling metaphor for the way decent people in all walks of life slip into dishonesty. Kelly's perception is that the Black Sox did not cheat as individuals. They did so, following the basic tenet of their sport, as a team. Money may have been the bait but loyalty and comradeship were the motives that persuaded them, some with great reluctance, to betray their talents. As Chick Gandil (Paul Christie), the sour ringleader of the scam, remarks in an aside, people become willing to do something they consider wrong if they see enough others doing it. Kelly shrewdly...
Despite that firepower, Libya is far from unprotected. Its air force includes some 480 Soviet and aging French-built aircraft. More ominously, a Kresta-class Soviet cruiser is anchored in Libyan waters. Seven other Soviet warships are nearby in the Mediterranean. If Gaddafi should rise to the bait and try forcibly to counter any U.S. movement across his line in the gulf, a prime U.S. retaliatory target might be the SA-5 antiaircraft sites that recently became operational at an airfield south of the Libyan city of Surt. One complication in hitting the sites: an attack could result in casualties...
...Webb is tricked into assuming his Bourne identity once again. His assignment this time: to track down an impostor threatening to plunge the Far East into war. The bait being dangled is Webb's equally scholarly wife Marie, who has been abducted by American agents and flown to Hong Kong, where much of the action takes place. It is all for the good of the country, though most of the way Webb and Marie find that hard to believe. So may readers. But credibility is hardly the point. Ludlum deals in male fantasies, and there are few two-fisted scribes...
...strategic places on the rim of California's San Joaquin Valley, men kneel in gravelike pits. Camouflaged with grass, they await their prey. A stillborn calf lies as bait within inches of each of the earthen blinds. Nearby, other men squat beside a row of four metal cannons, ready to fire weights attached to a 40-ft. by 50-ft. net. Frustrated, they all scan the sky, hoping that the wintry clouds collecting on the horizon do not close in. The 20-lb. Gymnogyps californianus rarely seeks food on stormy days...
...appropriations bills, Congress struggled to pass a $498 billion catchall measure for 1986 that Reagan threatened to veto because it gives too much to domestic programs and too little to defense. At the same time, Congress scrambled to finish a $50 billion farm bill, also regarded as veto bait because it exceeds the White House target by $5 billion. Even if the White House and Congress can resolve their differences, the 1986 budget seems likely to fall short of the deficit-reduction target set by Gramm-Rudman for this fiscal year, thus triggering the first round of automatic cuts, totaling...