Word: snared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kill off American jobs. In the Democrat-controlled House, the Ways and Means Committee approved for floor action a bill that would slash U.S. imports of textiles and clothing, primarily from East Asia, as much as 40%. In the Republican- controlled Senate, sponsors rewrote a companion bill to snare as many votes as possible. The new Senate version would curb imports of shoes in order to catch the votes of Senators outside Southern textile states, while the textile provisions would be softened to fall most heavily on three nations (Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong), perhaps soothing Senators reluctant to antagonize...
Apple must now rectify some embarrassing past mistakes. Its creation of a direct-sales force to snare corporate accounts did little more than alienate the company's existing dealers. Apple's attempt to salvage its foundering Lisa computer by renaming it the Macintosh XL proved futile, and the machine was abandoned seven weeks ago. The original Macintosh, introduced with great fanfare last year, may have been too dependent on a single software supplier to make major inroads into offices. The impact of the cumulative errors has been to take much of the polish off Apple's once bright image. Says...
...disadvantageous and in bad taste. It is undesirable for us to be pleading for a summit with them." Privately, some of Reagan's senior advisers agreed. They suspected that Gorbachev's coyness about setting a firm date for a summit was a sign that he was setting up a snare instead...
...Morgenthau, who faces an election this year, the case has become a political snare. Those upset by the first grand jury's lenient treatment contend that the district attorney did not press the grand jury hard enough for an indictment for attempted homicide against Goetz, who had overnight become celebrated as a quirky urban hero, an Everyman who finally fought back. In New York, unlike some other states, prosecutors seeking a grand jury indictment are required to present a balanced case and must include exculpatory evidence. Even so Morgenthau was astonished by the original grand jury's finding. "We thought...
...Alfred V. Covello '54, now a superior court judge in Connecticut who played snare drum for the band, said that alumni shouldn't have too much trouble playing the music because traditional Harvard songs, "never leave...