Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, that traced the distortions of the democratic idea by the belief in a "popular will." Talmon recently sparked a debate in Israel when he attacked Prime Minister Menachem Begin's autonomy policy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth...
...quite a narrative trick, one that allows the author to hit the emotional highs and bawdy lows of Shapiro's lurch through a world of dubious achievements and even more dubious respectability. Joshua, with his raffish background and inherited street smarts, is an arbiter of such matters. Most of his childhood friends make it to Montreal's affluent suburbs and lose their roots in wall-to-wall carpeting. To put on occasional airs is human, but to be a full-time phony is to risk devastating caricature, like Yossel Kugelman who becomes Psychiatrist Jonathan Cole, author...
...idea of sanctions. Explained Italian Columnist Alfredo Pieroni: "The hostages are not a global problem. In a world thirsty for petroleum, it is not productive to push one of the great oil producers into the arms of the Soviet Union." Said a senior West German Chancellery aide: "The trick with sanctions is to squeeze the Iranians enough to be persuasive without alienating them entirely. But in the long run, sanctions never work anyway...
...Even though shutouts are very rare, you have to believe you can stop every goal, otherwise you don't belong in the cage," Lechner said earlier this season. "After convincing yourself, the trick is to let the other team know it and scare them away, then it's all over...
Kupfer's work seems to provide clinical confirmation of experiments involving REM sleep in cats. Harvard's Allan Hobson told the convention that he and his colleague Robert McCarley have been able to turn on the brain cells that control REM sleep in the animals. Their trick: using drugs that mimic the action of natural chemicals. Remarkably, they extended feline REM sleep from a normal six to ten minutes to nearly three hours. The Harvard cats obviously cannot describe their dreams or indicate if they really have any. But their cycles of sleep are so like those...