Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With one under his belt, Holmes later picked up another and then added an assist. By the end of the game, Coach Ronn Tomassoni was so pleased with Holmes that he sent the undersized rookie out looking for the hat trick...
...ponder his campaign pledge. In public he now calls his promise to cut the deficit in half in four years "a goal." Privately he understands that a true halving (in absolute dollars) would require a gasoline tax and other levies he is loath to impose. Eventually, the political trick will probably involve redefining the problem, either by 1) claiming that halving the deficit as a ratio of the debt to the gross domestic product should be considered a promise fulfilled or 2) arguing that there are different kinds of deficits, and that any funds appropriated for long-term improvements like...
...true, it could rank as the dirtiest trick of them all. In an article in the New Yorker, Seymour M. Hersh claims that unreleased archive tapes reveal that Richard Nixon tried in 1972 to link Democratic Party officials to the shooting of Alabama Governor George Wallace. Elvin Stanton, Wallace's chief aide, is calling for the release of all tapes dealing with the Nixon-Wallace affair, now held in secret in the National Archives. But Nixon lawyer R. Stan Mortenson ridiculed Hersh's sources for the story as "incompetent, clerical- level archivists...
...presidential race last summer with the New Jersey Senator's palpable eagerness to be considered for Secretary of State. Another proven reputation-enhancement tactic is to float your own name for a job for which you are not being considered. According to Clinton insiders, Senator Bob Kerrey tried this trick during the vice-presidential sweepstakes, and they suspect that deputy transition director Alexis Herman recently put herself forward for Secretary of Labor...
Decaf coffee is, of course, a joke. My parents have told me numerous times that the key to breaking the addiction is drinking decaf, with the hope that I could maybe trick my body into thinking it was getting the real thing. Well, it didn't work for me any better than it did for them, and perhaps that's why rehab centers today don't recommend snorting flower as an intermediate step for recovering crack junkies...