Word: trappings
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...Crimson's frustrations were aggravated by the efficiency of the Columbia defense, which executed the offside trap almost professionally any time the Harvard eleven tried to penetrate. As a result, Harvard's scoring hopes never reached fruition. Also contributing to the setback was the gadfly-like function performed by the Lions' Caribbean-born front line of Solomon Gayle, Dexter Skeene and Kingsley chin, all three of whom stayed in the faces of the Crimson back four throughout the game...
...attorneys, Howard Weitzman and Donald Rée, maintained a similar high pitch of righteous indignation throughout the trial. They portrayed their client as an embattled entrepreneur seeking to fulfill the American dream, a man himself the victim of a giant conspiracy: "Lured, lied to and pushed" into a trap set by Government agents who were "on a headlong rush to glory." The tactic was to put the Government on trial, and it worked. De Lorean never took the stand. Nor did his lawyers ever make a direct defense on the grounds of entrapment, which might have required an admission...
...Government, he went on, needs to borrow $500 million today just to get through tomorrow. The simple, vivid images were right out of Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign repertoire, but now the speaker was Walter Mondale. All week long the Democrat pounded away at the budget deficits ("a trap door under our economy") and at the President's denial that tax increases are inevitable. And all week long the Reagan Administration was peevish and confused as it responded. Said one White House aide of Mondale's démarche on the deficit: "He really stuck...
...catchy turn of the phrase. But what a dumkopf! Doesn't Buckley know that that kind of posturing only caters to the peaceniks and the detentists? I can already hear the shrieking in the halls of Harvard, about blacklisting and freedom of speech and all that other liberal clap-trap...
...disclosure of IBM standards could free Europe's computer makers from a trap of their own creation. Firms such as France's Bull and West Germany's Siemens have fallen behind U.S. and Japanese rivals partly because they have insisted on separate standards that have isolated their systems. Now access to IBM specifications will enable European firms to end their insularity by designing machines that communicate with...