Word: trapped
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...Powell hadn't spent time working in intelligence. The first lesson any good intelligence officer will learn in the field is that chatter is a trap easily fallen into. When I was in the Middle East I'd sit down every so often with a commercially available Bearcat scanner and listen to random conversations. It was mostly people griping about the shortage of bread or the price of gasoline. I improved my Arabic but little more. Once, however, something very intriguing came up on the air: the movement of tanks out of barracks. I was elated, jumping to the conclusion...
...result, it's unlikely that any of the $1 trillion Obama wants for his "bad bank" will be turned into credit that helps revive business and consumer spending. The main reason is that the North-American economy might be stuck in a classic liquidity trap, first witnessed during the Dirty Thirties when banks began hoarding newly created liquidity as insurance against a further downturn. "The fact is that since the failure of Lehman Brothers every bank in the world has been concerned with beefing up capital to survive the next few years," says Lawrence Booth, a finance specialist...
...cannot meet the obligations of their mortgage payments makes them simply placeholders in the housing market. The government is encouraging people to put their modest wages into money pits, by helping them to remain in their homes through new mortgage modification programs. They are being herded into an economic trap that will require them to spend money on something which may never have any value to them just so that they can keep their current roofs over their heads...
When the Harvard women’s hockey team rolled into Hamilton, N.Y. on Saturday, its afternoon contest with Colgate had all the makings of a trap game. The fatigued Crimson was playing its sixth game in two weeks and the Raiders—while stuck in the middle of the pack in the ECAC standings—held an impressive 12-4-1 record at home. But Harvard (15-8-3, 14-4-2 ECAC) is dominating its conference opponents right now, and the team used that momentum to barely sneak out of Hamilton victorious, beating Colgate...
...emptiness. “They” are perceived by Vargalas alone, a result of his deep pathology: “When discovered, ‘They’ immediately change tactics… It’s impossible to surround ‘Them,’ to trap ‘Them’ in a corner, to push ‘Them’ up against the wall—it’s ‘They’ who surround you, who hold you in a siege like a live castle, whose walls, alas...