Word: trappings
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Republicans say they haven't seen any downside yet to opposing reform. Brown actually stepped into Obama's populist trap by opposing the bank tax, and it didn't seem to help his opponent, Martha Coakley, even though internal polling gave her a 21-point advantage when it came to "taking on Wall Street." Why? "People thought Democrats in Washington would not deliver on these issues," says her pollster, Celinda Lake...
...year.) Yet these women have been caged by the expectations of voracious publishers and readers. Their escape methods are different - Powell appears to be chewing her own leg off, Gilbert gently boring her captors into letting her go - but it's hard not to empathize with someone in a trap, even one built on success...