Word: baits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole took the bait, using the first question in San Diego, a Can't We All Get Along-type inquiry from a grade school teacher, to bring up the FBI files and Whitewater pardons. This was so promising that an audible sigh of relief went up in the press room. Sadly, however, the panel was made up of those real people we hear so much about, and real people apparently don't take their lead from the media. They were still looking for the beef, and didn't know the new spin was, "Where's the mud?" Like jurors...
...game animals as much as anyone else in his rugged state, where 1 out of 5 residents has a hunting license. But when it comes to bagging a black bear, one of Idaho's choice trophies, he won't have anything to do with two popular hunting methods: using bait to coax it to a killing ground and using dogs to tree it. Says Fritchman: "It's deplorable. Those things take all the sport out of hunting...
...Bruce Nelson, a Minnesota resident who, while catching frogs for catfish bait, realized that almost all of the frogs he caught were horribly deformed. The deformed frogs, which can have anywhere from zero to six legs, shrunken sex organs and missing eyes, are almost ubiquitous in Minnesota. Scientists are not sure what's causing the deformity...
...tied gaffes. The far more articulate Bill Clinton is the obvious favorite in these contests. With his adoption of traditionally Republican positions such as kicking welfare recipients and immigrants while they're down, he'll easily dodge much of Dole's criticism. Hopefully, Clinton will also be able to bait the crusty ex-senator into losing his notorious temper. That could very well provide the Democrats with a soundbite (such as Dole's 1976 "Democrat wars" seething) that they can use to heap insult upon the injury that they have already inflicted on Dole's third (and thankfully, last) doomed...
...which points to the prime difficulty of offering an economic critique of the tax plan Dole finally unveiled last week: it is not really an economic program at all. The plan's true purpose is to bait enough voters with the promise of lower tax bills so as to overcome President Clinton's towering lead in the polls...