Word: trappings
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...suspend the campaign and ride back to Washington to rescue the global financial system only to be shut down by his own party, he handed Obama a weapon almost as powerful as the crisis itself. Times were suddenly scary - and McCain was "erratic," "impulsive," reckless. He fell into a trap he couldn't get out of for weeks: any attempt to do something dramatic and different just dug the hole deeper. Every time McCain took a swing, as his cheering section demanded he do, those undecided-voter dial meters plunged. Six in 10 voters said McCain was spending more time...
Last night’s matchup between Harvard and Holy Cross had all the makings of the classic trap game. The Crusaders had dropped three straight contests, while the Crimson looked for its fifth straight win after a 3-0 thumping of Brown on Saturday. Even more importantly: Saturday’s Ivy showdown with undefeated Princeton looms large on Harvard’s schedule, and the team would have found three-win Holy Cross easy to overlook...
...Consider the trap game bullet successfully dodged...
...natural resources are very, very limited does not necessarily mean that economic growth should stagnate. There’s something almost Malthusian about Stoll’s argument, and indeed his brief history of Malthus is not decidedly dismissive of Malthus’s infamous “trap.” Innovation is usually heralded as the solution to the problem of limited resources; after all, if Malthus could have foreseen the genetic engineering that was employed in the Green Revolution, would he have been so sure that agricultural production couldn’t sustain an interminably growing population...
...Gates said that bad health care represented the start of a reinforcing cyclical trap that hurt the economy, which in turn damaged the education system and thereafter affected the performance level of governance...