Word: preys
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...politics, Paulson is also a nature enthusiast. He enjoys fly fishing and bird watching and, since 2004, Paulson has served as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy. He is also the chairman emeritus of the Peregrine Fund, an organization devoted to protecting birds of prey in their natural habitats. Before going into business, Paulson earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Dartmouth, where he was also an all-Ivy football lineman and a member of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa. One student on the committee that picked him as speaker...
...even Wile E. Coyote can run on thin air. While pursuing his winged prey, Wile E. would always end up running off the edge of a cliff. But he wouldn’t fall right away. Instead, his animators usually drew the coyote continuing to run in the air. After a few gravity-defying moments, Wile E. would slow down and take a look around. Realizing that he had left the cliff (and a laughing Roadrunner) far behind, he would plummet to earth...
...plenty of them - who all of a sudden think they are running the country, because in a lot of ways they are." It's this power that makes them the target of lobbyists and influence peddlers, and it's their lack of status that makes them such easy prey...
...plight of ordinary Guatemalans, De Beausset hatched a plan to document the journey immigrants face from Guatemala into the United States. Getting to the U.S. would mean hiring a pricey smuggler, and weeks of jumping on moving trains, dodging the Mexican police, and avoiding the stream of muggers who prey on the vulnerable travelers.De Beausset attempted to tag along with a smuggler—known by locals as coyotes. However, for fear of participating in an illegal operation, he refused to pay them. When all the coyotes turned him down, he decided to make the journey alone.He traveled for weeks...
...culture where some of our most esteemed scholars and writers fall prey to the sloppy writing, editing, and fact-checking that leads to such mistakes, and where the University seems to tolerate rather than censure such behavior with a wink and a nod, how can we expect more from our students...