Word: preying
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...never been easy being an animal at the business end of a hunt, but these days it's hard being the hunter too. Dwindling ranges and herds make the ancient business of stalking prey an increasingly difficult proposition. The answer for many Americans is to shift their shooting grounds from the wild to one of the country's growing number of hunting preserves...
...more bureaucracy and less democracy. With all that on the table, the overwhelming sense that something is missing might not suffice to forge agreement. The Convention's charge to create "more democracy, transparency and efficiency in the European Union" is noble to a fault, but it could easily fall prey to the jealous interests of members who feel they have more tradition to defend than did 13 young states on America's eastern seaboard 215 years...
...recent column “What Do You Do?” by Kevin Hartnett ’03 (Feb. 11) raises interesting questions about individuals’ and society’s perceptions of various occupations, but he falls prey to his own criticism. Hartnett invokes John Dewey, arguing that a person’s job is not the full measure of her individuality. Yet, in his assessment of a Subway sandwich maker, Hartnett “can’t get past the sandwich,” arguing that the worker’s individuality is snuffed...
...befuddled baby on our cover drew some attention, not all of it adoring. Pondering the array of entities that might eventually prey upon the future citizen, a wary Virginian suggested, "The baby should also be worrying about the politicians who are ever willing to run up a tab on its yet-to-be-issued credit card." "I'm sure there are those who appreciate your parental concern," conceded a Californian who took offense at our youthful emblem of vulnerability, "but there are others who don't consider this a flattering mirror and who wonder if there is not just...
...paycheck, we often do so anyway. Instead of seven dollars an hour it’s seventy grand a year, but the principle is still the same, materialism reigns. Where the Subway employee needs, we want and though society has a tendency to exalt our position, individuality falls prey to both equally. The greatest opportunity afforded by our privileged position is the chance to invert the pernicious relationship that subsumes the self to money. But instead of seizing this opportunity we often squander it, expressing a willingness to sacrifice anything if the price is right...