Word: preying
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...dreams of the women’s advocacy groups are realized at Harvard, the new women’s center runs the risk of falling prey to this dystopic vision of radical feminism, which will inevitably alienate so many of the women the center is meant to serve. A major purpose of a women’s center must be to empower moderate women, not the feminazis who already take their modern conception of womanhood to an extreme. Erring on the side of this extremism are many of the Harvard women’s groups leading the women?...
...this endeavor. Evidence of this commitment is the College’s decision to hire a full-time director of the women’s center by the end of this semester. We can confidently say that this time, the women’s center will not fall prey to the pitfalls that have doomed it in the past...
...terrified family, a collection of pub names that a novelist couldn't improve upon, and, if the many early breaks in the case continue, a quick win for the police. The business started with what's known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast of London, when a car with men disguised as police officers forced him off the road. Two other fake cops...
...business started with what is known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast of London, when a car with men disguised as police officers forced him off the road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken to a safe house...
...Although my father-in-law is fairly new to computing, plenty of sophisticated surfers are falling prey to wide variety of spyware applications, according to the State of Spyware report released today by Webroot Software, the manufacturer of a leading anti-spyware application. Its survey of U.S. businesses found that over half of respondents had a spyware disruption resulting in lost revenue, and that 2005 was the worst year on record for data security losses. Webroot identified more than 400,000 sites last year that hosted spyware, and found that 30.5% of spyware exploits originated in the U.S., followed...