Word: snaring
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...Harvard wins today and then goes on to defeat Yale next weekend in The Game, the Crimson will snare at least a share of its first league crown in two years. If Harvard wins its last two games and Penn loses its final two, the Crimson will claim its first outright title since...
...regarded as an enemy, the body needs it to manufacture new cell membranes, steroid hormones and bile acids. Made primarily in the liver and also obtained through food, cholesterol travels through the bloodstream in round bundles of fat and protein called lipoproteins. Like Venus's-flytraps, vacant LDL receptors snare the passing packets. The lipoproteins are rapidly broken down in the cell, and the cholesterol is freed for use, while the receptor returns to the membrane, ready for prey...
...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...