Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minstrel mask--a guise of alter ego. And blacks--sensing this psychic dependency--have been all too willing to join in the charade, hiding behind that minstrel mask, appearing to be what white men wanted them to be, and finding pleasure in the deception which too often was a trick on themselves...
...listened to her speak, I realized that she had a number of issues that she wished to have addressed in the national political arena, and I also realized that, sadly, she could not understand that she and the other African-Americans present for this occasion had played "a trick on themselves...
...little trick like this is just reallysnippy. It brings down the reputation of the LawSchool Council," said Mainigi, a second-year lawstudent who identifies herself as the onlymoderate on the executive board and who was notpresent at the meeting where the decision toextend the filing deadline was made...
...will always cost you money to get rid of garbage," asserts Marcia Bystryn, a recycling official in New York City. The trick is to encourage behavior that minimizes the costs, allocates them as equitably as possible and creates productive economic activity wherever possible. In large measure, the present disequilibrium in recycling is the result of policies that work at cross-purposes with those goals and with one another. Environmentalists argue -- correctly -- that recycled materials suffer in the marketplace against virgin materials because of government subsidies. Newsprint producers, for instance, are indirectly subsidized through public-area logging and logging access roads...
Reagan's great trick in 1980 was to unite the three main sects of "wingers": the better-dead-than-Red faction, whose main concern was fighting communism; the religious right, interested in moral issues such as abortion; and fiscal rebels for whom the great demons were high taxes and government regulation. Bush's cold-warrior credentials served as a visa when he crossed from the Establishment faction into Reagan country in 1980, but the fall of the Soviet Union has shattered the right's consensus on foreign policy. Bush admires pragmatic power-balance diplomacy of the Kissinger school. Others favor...