Word: catches
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...public outcry prompted Sāo Paulo Governor Andre Franco Montoro to declare a "permanent war against crime." One of his first moves was to authorize the purchase of 262 new police cars to help catch more criminals in the act. Some financial institutions now have as many as 100 armed guards on the payroll. Bank lobbies feature turret-like booths with small slots for keeping rifles trained on potential thieves. According to Geraldo Vidigal, a lawyer for the Federation of Brazilian Bank Associations, these armored guardhouses initially provided "a certain psychological deterrent," but ultimately proved useless. Once a robbery...
Ever take a holiday where the papers could not reach you and no TV or radio for miles? It can be done; there is life without journalism. Wild flowers, geese, that sort of life. As long as one remains stock-still, one feels no craving for the networks. But catch one inkling of motion elsewhere, and immediately the mind is overwhelmed with the desire to know all that is happening, in every alley and closet in the world. Such dependency may be a sign of weakness, but it also suggests that life is connected and continuous. The odd present tense...
Nineteenth century travel photographers used chemicals and light to catch distant realities upon a collodion wet plate and bear them home in velvet-lined boxes to London or New York. It was a cumbersome wizardry that they practiced, lumbering across Mexico or Africa in darkroom wagons. In desert heat they crawled under layers of blankets, into lightless black bags, to change their photographic plates. When a photographer named Captain Payer was taking pictures in Egypt for the Viceroy in 1863, the fellahin thought that his camera was a Pandora's box, and-that his black bellows contained cholera; they...
...understood as the Fool. But Ronald Harwood's adaptation of his own play does not force these comparisons too hard. It is perfectly possible to enjoy The Dresser simply as a backstage fable, rich in the full-tilt emotional exaggeration of plays and pictures that try to catch showfolk off guard, offstage. Or as a fairly acute study of the master-servant relationship. Or simply as an excuse to give two splendid actors (Tom Courtenay as the title figure, Albert Finney as Sir) a chance to strut their stuff...
...this doesn't keep minority recruitment from being somewhat of a catch 22. It is difficult to attract students without a significant minority presence in the administration and faculty. Yet at the same time, it may be those students who will successfully move the University towards greater minority representation...