Word: baits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, Charlestown Fisherman captures a man, pensive and alone, deside a curved railing which separates him from the water. He turns away from the photographer and audience while he puts bait on his fishing hook, underscoring the privacy and calm of the scene. Here the man is not in opposition to the railing, a barrier between him and the ocean, but acts alone beside the metal structure...
...lonely Rhew made the best of an unhappy situation, not willing to easily give up the familiar privileges accorded his more fortunate neighbors. Using Oreo cookies as bait, Rhew lured his entrymates to squeeze into his closet-like room for several 3 a.m. study breaks...
...create the danger of dependency? Well, what is that danger? It is twofold: a run-up of price and a cutoff of supply. True, our interest is in paying as little as possible for oil in the long run, not just today. Too low a price could be sucker bait, discouraging alternative energy sources and conservation, and setting the stage for a bigger rip-off tomorrow. It is impossible to say what price today minimizes the long-run cost of oil for consumers. What you can say for sure is that oil producers have exactly the opposite objective: maximum revenue...
...problem of disrupted adoptions spreads, specialists are looking more closely at agency methods. One cause for failure is a practice that Berkeley Professor Richard Barth describes as "stretching." In essence, it is a bait- and-switch game: would-be parents are encouraged to adopt a child different from the one they wanted by the withholding of some negative information. For example, a couple who want a baby are persuaded to take an older child and never told that several earlier placements have not worked out because of emotional problems. Though the motive is benevolent -- finding a home for a hard...
Nevada officials hope to zap the marauding insects, known as Mormon crickets because of a severe infestation near Salt Lake City in the 1800s, before they march. Aerial spraying and a toxic bait will be used. But no one is confident of turning back the invasion. Concedes Robert Gronowski, a director of Nevada's anti-cricket strategy: "You can't kill them...