Word: trappings
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...such, this recovery is doomed to fall through the trap door of 200-plus billion dollar budget deficits extending as far as the economic forecaster's eye can see. The runaway deficit is, in the words of Democratic economic guru Felix Rohatyn, "a prescription for national bankruptcy," the threat of which to our well-being is matched in direness only by the myopia with which Reagan is approaching the problem...
...People used to think that the only way to get out of a trend of poverty was industrialization. That's a piece of garbage," Gilles said. "Very few countries that have neglected agriculture have succeeded in getting out of a poverty trap," he added...
...second play of the drive, Vignali exploded for his longest scamper of the year--a 25-yard run off a trap. Nine more running plays--and II in all-culminated in White's one-yard sneak for a touchdown just 14 seconds into the second quarter...
...world's most powerful, to get into Western data banks that contain American military and technological secrets. Rather than objecting to the supercomputer sale, U.S. intelligence officials decide to capitalize on it. They dispatch an M.I.T. scientist to Paris to plant a "softbomb," or programmed booby trap, in the computer's meteorologic software. The key to the ploy is the information relayed by the U.S. National Weather Service to meteorologic centers all over the world. When the atmospheric pressure on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands is reported to be 1,029 millibars, the trap is sprung...
Neither team was able to score again in the first half, partially due to the aforementioned offside trap but also due to a lack of finishing on the part of the Harvard strikers...