Word: snaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favorite to snare the third outfield spot is sophomore Mike Hill, who hit .258 and garnered eight stolen bases as a back-up during his rookie season. Also vying for playing time this spring will be speedy junior Geoff Fletcher and sophomore centerfielder Drew Shire...
Even so, the sheer size of the consumer debt burden remains a threat to the health of the economy. "The whole idea of stretching out debt maturities to provide a soft landing is a snare and a delusion," contends economist A. Gary Shilling. "When you go into default, the total size of the debt is all that matters...
...exotic locale, boy meets social dilemma, boy meets religious destiny, and boy meets his literary creator -- not to mention similarly unromantic encounters among personified animals and steam engines. Even musicals that focused on love tended to be wistful and full of woe, as if passion must always be a snare and delusion or a doom-struck mistake...
...Vincent explained afterward in his understated, lawyerly fashion. "And the only way to get it was to propose it. I couldn't make that part of the sanction because I can't order him to become a limited partner." Instead the commissioner devised his pick-off play, designed to snare Steinbrenner into voluntarily giving up his majority (55%) control of the Yankees...
...senior Feld threw out the freak shows, hired new acts, stepped up the pace of the show and started the world's first clown college. Determined to get the best performers, he bought an entire West German circus for $2 million in 1968 just to snare its star, Gebel-Williams. After the younger Feld graduated from Boston University in 1970, he didn't have to run away from home to join the business he wanted to pursue. He became the ringmaster when his father died...