Word: baits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Night after night, Nigerian gangsters trolled the bars and fleshpots of Naples for reckless young Yanks. The bait: a weekend excursion to Turkey, all expenses paid, and a fat wad of walking-around cash. The job: carrying a backpack stuffed with heroin on the return flight from Istanbul to Rome...
...cover, and all gladly signed. The colonel accumulated old copies of the magazine, scouring libraries that were throwing out back issues once they had transferred them to microfilm. He wrote letters, even sometimes sent the cover subject a gift as an enticement to sign. Among those who took the bait: Pablo Picasso, Joseph R. McCarthy, Herbert Hoover, Charles de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek, Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio, Hopalong Cassidy (actor William Boyd) and all four Marx Brothers...
Teresa L. Brown, a Lincoln resident who works as a sales clerk at the store, says she has chatted with Kaczynski. He has bought fishing gear and asks here what bait is likely to work at a particular time of year. He has occaisionally purchased candles, batteries, a flashlight and a bag to carry things back to his cabin...
...politicians have engaged in the classic 'bait and switch' scheme. They brought us into the store with an icon of Richard Allen Davis, but now that we're in the store, it is full of pizza thieves and pot smokers...
...argues William Schultz, one of the agency's deputy commissioners. And there is nothing to stop companies from sending only those articles that mention their products favorably and omitting negative reports. The worst outcome, say critics, would be if manufacturers used the relaxed rules to adopt a sort of bait-and-switch research program. They could, for example, seek approval from the FDA for an indication that is easy and inexpensive to prove but not widely useful. Then they would be free to market their drug for more common and complicated conditions without having to pursue the more rigorous research...