Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backcourt players cannot pick up their dribble too early or dribble into the corner where they can't see out of a trap...
...PERSONAL INJURIES Readers have come to expect something more than gripping plots from Scott Turow's legal thrillers, and this latest offers a mesmerizing main character. Robbie Feaver, a successful lawyer who has been caught bribing judges in Kindle County, becomes a pawn in an elaborate federal scheme to trap his beneficiaries on the bench. Along the way, Turow's suspenseful story deepens into a meditation on the nature of personal loyalties and the shady space between ethics...
Also for Navy, senior point guard Reggie Skipworth averages just under five assists per game. Harvard will need to trap Skipworth, a skilled ballhandler, up front, as he will most likely be looking to feed the ball inside to take advantage of mismatches in the low-post...
...troops advanced into Chechnya's second city, Gudermes, only to find its Chechen defenders already gone. "Chechen sources say most of their fighters are retreating into the mountains and drawing Russia into the cities as winter sets in," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "They see it as a trap, because winter will hamper the Russian attack helicopters and allow the Chechens to wage a more effective guerrilla campaign." Then again, Russian commanders may be tempted to test whether the Chechens' by now familiar "We have not yet begun to fight" mantra isn't simply bravado designed to cover...
...morning, June 29, their luggage was loaded into a blue Mercedes, and they headed north, driving 14 hrs. through Tuscany, Milan and the Austrian Alps to Munich. Frankel had hoped an associate there would help him get at his money. After two days, though, Frankel began to sense a trap, and at midnight they checked out of the Astron Hotel...