Word: baits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s the product of a young team,” Stone said. “But we’ve gotta lot of games under our belt now and we need to fish or cut bait here. We need to figure out what kind of team...
...yakuza runs these joints, and it lures girls into them with live bait. Handsome young men called "catch" hover in the alleys of Shibuya and Kabuki-cho, swooping down on young targets. They're pretty boys who begin by flattering a girl, acting unthreatening, and then moving swiftly to temptation by dangling the promise of quick money and easy work. It's a lucrative job, says Eiji, a bottle-blond catch with a bronzed face wearing a skinny black suit. Once he reels a girl in to his employer, he collects up to $200. "The younger and cuter," Eiji explains...
However, when Minnesota, Toronto or Chicago makes a trade, they have to give up quality in order to receive quality (unless the trade is made to a Single A team). Matt Lawton brought Reed. It took Shawn Green to get Mondesi. Bob Wickman was needed bait to pry away Sexson...
...revealed, the public outcry was harsh: Healy faced a severe dressing-down before a congressional committee just days after leaving office. Despite Healy's argument that the Liberty Fund would go to worthwhile causes, many felt the Red Cross had deliberately misled donors by using September 11th in a bait-and-switch ploy. Monday, the organization offered to return money to any donor who felt deceived by the fund-raising; there?s no word on whether anyone?s taken them up on their offer...
...intelligence chief, Qari Ahmadullah, has scored some impressive hits. His biggest coup: catching Abdul Haq, 43, the Pashtun commander who slipped into Afghanistan two weeks ago to lay the groundwork for a revolt against the Taliban. Afghan sources tell TIME that Taliban spies dangled a juicy piece of bait in front of Haq: several regional Taliban commanders were ready to defect...