Word: tempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While these reasons all have resonance, your basic trader is a superstitious fellow, given to viewing charts that show graphically how a company's stock has fared over time. One quick perusal of the chart book shows a heart-stopping dip every 10th month of the year. Why tempt fate? Why not just get out ahead of that plunging line...
...many of the arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they say, such gambling is inherently a regressive tax on the poor, whose comparitive desperation may tempt them to fritter away precious funds for the slim chance of cashing in. "The anti-lottery contingent was painting pictures of people spending their food money on lottery tickets," says Holmes. "The pro-lottery camp chafes at the idea of government protecting adults from risky behavior, and argues that...
...House majority whip TOM DELAY is planning to wave a red flag, introducing a pro-Taiwan arms resolution on the House floor. Other G.O.P. leaders, including Senate majority leader TRENT LOTT, have also signaled that politics is not right for a China vote this year. And though that may tempt the Administration to back off WTO again, the White House will most likely stay the course. Clinton does not want to send the Chinese home with another nasty surprise...
...House majority whip Tom Delay is planning to wave a red flag, introducing a pro-Taiwan arms resolution on the House floor. Other GOP leaders, including Senate majority leader Trent Lott, have also signaled that politics is not right for a China vote this year. And though that may tempt the Administration to back off WTO again, the White House will most likely stay the course. Clinton does not want to send the Chinese home with another nasty surprise...
...territory's remaining Serb population (given the track record, there is little chance that any non-Albanians would remain in an independent Kosovo). The peace deal that ended NATO's air war with Yugoslavia earlier this year explicitly affirms Belgrade's sovereignty over the territory; breaking that agreement would tempt the Serbs to try and recapture at least some parts of Kosovo, and would very likely jeopardize NATO-Russian cooperation on keeping the peace there. In short, it could leave KFOR's Western ground troops in the middle of a shooting war. Though the "policy shift" reported by the Post...