Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese know they have to wipe off stains on their hands before they can shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas...
...said, the key is to make sure we get the credit for growth we didn't create. I'm confident the $30 billion "growth package" is doing the trick. But of course the problem with stimulating an already growing economy is that it pushes up inflation. We don't want a "Clinton inflation" to cancel out the "Clinton growth." So we have to raise taxes...
...trick here is to win as much sympathy and be as patronizing as possible to underclass friends who have the gall to believe they actually have a lot to do when their heaviest writing assignment is 10-12 pages with no outside reading required...
...starved northern cities, extending planting and harvest periods and aiding nighttime rescue missions. Those goals will remain distant, however, until the Russians' space program, cash-starved after the end of the cold war, gets a new infusion of money. They'll need more than mirrors to pull off that trick...
...past few years in Cambridge, I've managed to drag myself out of bed on February 14th--but it hasn't been quite the same. The phone calls and mail have had to do the trick...