Word: baits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...admire the skill with which the Republicans accomplished their bait-and-switch. Bush only managed to sell Congress on the tax cut by whittling down the cost with accounting gimmicks. Few Americans knew about the hidden expiration date, and even fewer cared about it. But now that the booby-trapped tax bill has been signed into law, congressional Democrats have to accept the permanent cuts, or else be accused of raising taxes in 2011. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has accused the Democrats of supporting a “now you see it, now you don?...
...traditionally zipped lips, I have no idea; but I suspect not. They’d been trying to get him since he left Treasury in 1997, according to comments he made in The Crimson. He’d played hard-to-get earlier, but now, with the bait of working with Summers again on the end of their fishing line, the Corporation couldn’t lose. If Rubin meant what he said when he told them to pick his friend, it was time for him to put his money where his mouth was. But are we really better...
...It’s a marketing ploy, but it was designed to get both genders to come,” he said. “It wasn’t designed, as some said, to bait freshman girls into entering a ‘predatory lair’. I sincerely believe people at Harvard are more intelligent than to believe that...
...Arafat is not taking the bait. The erstwhile prisoner of Ramallah demanded (and, in substantial part, received) an Israeli withdrawal from recently reoccupied Palestinian towns as a precondition for talks, but even then was in no hurry to commit himself to General Anthony Zinni's cease-fire plan...
...Back in New York Cahn produced a Broadway comedy, "Devils Galore," with Winchell's daughter Walda in the cast. Later Cahn used Walda as angel bait at fund-raising parties. To support him, Walda ran through her parents' allowance and was forced to sell the mink coat they had given her. (In the movie Susie is usually seen wearing a mink coat J.J. gave her. "This coat is your brother," Dallas grumbles. "I've always hated this coat.") What can we say? Walda loved the lug, and Walter didn't; he thought Bill was pulling a Cahn job. According...