Word: baits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...April showers bring May flowers, what pops up when it rains through most of May and June as well? A bumper crop of mosquitoes, as communities from Texas to New Jersey have learned only too well this summer. The best reason to avoid being skeeter bait is, as always, the sheer human misery of dealing with all those itchy red welts. But this summer there's also the chance, admittedly small, of more serious consequences, especially now that the West Nile virus is spreading up and down the Eastern seaboard...
...much as $25,000 in 20 minutes. In the market for a mortgage? Everbank will shell out $300 if you find a competitor with lower rates. Savings account? ING Direct offers 4.75% interest--no fees or minimum balance required. All good deals, but we doubt you'll take the bait. E-banks, it seems, can't even give money away. Despite being offered great rates, muscular security and ubiquitous ATMs, consumers are reluctant to store money in the ether. They fear thieving hackers, even though the deposits are federally insured, and they don't like the hassles of making deposits...
...grim-faced Japanese soldiers heading off to bomb Hawaii that are shown in trailers elsewhere. A 14-page spread on the movie in the fan magazine Pia never even mentions Japan's involvement in the attack. As a result, some critics view the company's marketing strategy as a bait and switch. "A movie is a product, and it should be sold for what it is," says Yuko Sekiguchi, editor-in-chief of the influential cinema magazine Kinema Junpo...
When some of them took the bait, Roth went even further. Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator of The Ghost Writer (1979), seems identical to Roth in everything from his vocation (writer) and faith (Jewish) to his Newark childhood. (Tarnapol at least grew up in the Bronx.) What is more, Zuckerman is facing the same dilemma that Roth did, with considerable attendant publicity early in his career; he has been accused of writing a story involving misbehaving Jews that, other Jews claim, will confirm anti-Semitic prejudices in Gentile readers...
...born in Thailand b) can take out Bronstein and Sharon Stone c) is already signed up for Roger Corman's Gator Bait 3: Deadly but Immobile d) will be dead before you read this...