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Word: traps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reporters who wouldn't know an offside trap from a lobster pot were now descending on the team's lone media rep demanding exclusives. David Letterman pronounced himself "team owner" and began plugging away. Even Tom Brokaw went West for an on-the-scene report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flat-Out Fantastic | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...classic response to such a 1930s-type trap is a fiscal jump start: use deficit spending to get the economy moving, and hope that this gets investors investing and consumers consuming. But after years of ever widening deficits--Japan will run far and away the largest peacetime budget deficit in history this year--the economic engine still shows no sign of catching. True, official statistics say the economy grew an astonishing 1.9% in the first quarter, a number that has mystified observers who look at other indicators and see no evidence of a boom. But there is no sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Asia Recovered? | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...that very question. Employing his virtuosity as an orchestrator of suspense, the author puts Lecter, his facial appearance altered by collagen injections, in Florence, Italy, speaking impeccable Italian and lecturing to scholars on the works of Dante. Verger's network of spies has spotted Lecter there and set a trap that he cannot possibly escape. Guess what happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dessert, Anyone? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...powerful of the earth should take heed: deep inside that T shirt where we have tried to trap him, the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with impatience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHE GUEVARA: The Guerrilla | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...dodges a debate, he'll be slammed for taking rank-and-file Republicans for granted. The Bush campaign's quiet efforts to avoid a presidential straw poll scheduled for early August in Ames, Iowa, have angered some Iowa Republicans. Not that Bush's view of Ames as a booby trap isn't justified. Straw polls--where participants pay to vote--can be manipulated by rivals to make front runners look bad. Bush's rivals are already starting. They claim that Bush cutouts floated the idea of "reimbursing" the state G.O.P. for canceling the event. When that didn't work, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Ready To Parry | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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