Word: tempt
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Lysistrata is the story of a group of ancient Greek women--Kleonike (China Forbes), Myrrhine (Nell Benjamin), Lampito (Alison Weller) and Ismenia (Daniela Raz) --who, led by the title character (Mary Dixie Carter), withhold sex from their husbands to tempt the men home from...
...interview yesterday, Herschbach, who has won a Nobel Prize in chemistry, termed his field of study "Garden of Eden problems"--situations in nature that fascinate and tempt him because of their seeming incomprehensibility. His most recent project was finding a way to study molecular chemistry "one collision at a time...
...wrote those sentences in his Princeton thesis 40 years ago, the Secretary of State's underlying pessimism about the prospects for peace in the Middle East has remained constant. As the most political of diplomats, Baker shares Irving Kristol's observation: "Those whom the Gods would destroy they first tempt to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict." So why has Baker now joined a long line of U.S. leaders who have attempted to do just that...
...heard by the jurors, it may help persuade them to find the defendant guilty. But the verdict will no longer be overturned automatically -- provided that an appeals court finds that other evidence would have been sufficient to obtain a conviction. Some legal experts fear that the new standard will tempt prosecutors to introduce questionable confessions in borderline cases in the hope that any resulting conviction will be upheld...
THAT an angry electorate could tempt itself with a drastic budget reform proposal like Question 3 on tomorrow's ballot should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed Bay State politics for the past two years. By almost any measure imaginable, the state of Massachusetts in the year 1990 is an economic shambles, and nearly everyone--Democrat and Republican--realizes that something has to be done to clean up the mess...