Word: enmeshment
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...cash registers. In tests, researchers paid for housewives' purchases, led them to another market and asked them to shop again for the week's groceries. There the women bought an entirely different basket of goods. Such tests have persuaded stores to stay open at night to enmesh the undecided male as well as the female. A couple shopping together buys 60% more than the man alone, 30% more than the wife alone...
...United States of some commitments, momentarily embarrassing, to the National Government; it would reduce at least one of the areas of discord between the United States and some of its allies; and it would satisfy at least one of the demands of the Communist world. But it simultaneously would enmesh the United States in commitments to a government hostile to the free world and party to the conspiracy which seeks to destroy it. In total effect it would reduce rather than enlarge the area wherein American policy-makers are free to make choices...
...definition is an oversimplification. As second in command of the College, his duties enmesh him in such non-academic matters as setting the Faculty's financial budget, scrutinizing athletic policy, and formulating admissions procedures. Even outside the academic world, he is consistent in his concept that the best policy provides equal facilities for all and permits the individual to have as much latitude and free will as possible. Thus he has been an earnest supporter of the intra-mural "athletics-for-all" plan despite the fact that it aids in plunging the Athletic Association deep in the red each year...
...violated due process of law because; it was too vague, "a 'dragnet' which may enmesh anyone who agitates for a change of government"; it lacked provisions for judicial proof of individual membership in subversive groups; it set up a "presumption of (organizational) guilt"; and the law constituted 'guilt by association' with a vengeance...
...test cases brought by the Communist Party and a teachers' group, State Supreme Court Justice Harry E. Schirick declared the law a bill of attainder (i.e., a legislative act that punishes without trial) and therefore unconstitutional. In its vagueness, said Schirick, the act was a "dragnet which may enmesh anyone who agitates for a change of Government...