Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promised land. On closer inspection, it may even be a misguided dream. Still, the threat of a limit on congressional service could be just the weapon necessary to generate real campaign reform and maybe even force the enactment of public financing of ) congressional elections. Nothing else has done the trick. Scandal, disgust and decreasing voter participation -- all predicted to energize change -- have failed. It may be that nothing can, or ever could, concentrate a Congressman's mind more than the prospect of losing his job forever...
Horrified? Actually, the U.S. has already renounced a huge chunk of its national debt. The real value of the national debt in 1984 was exactly the same as it had been in 1946, despite regular annual deficits between those years. The trick was inflation, which eroded the real value of the debt as fast as we accumulated it. We could pull this off because, unlike other world- class debtors, we can raise money in our own currency...
...minions of Oberon, king of the fairies--these relationships grow more complicated, and true love turns false through mistaken spells. Add in a band of workers rehearsing a play about Pyramus and Thisbe; Titania, the queen of the fairies and the butt of Oberon's a cruel trick; and some cacophony from "Love Juice," and the play is on its merry...
...complainers and whiners. "Radcliffe women are ugly dogs," I hear. "Too smart, you can't trick them...
...affectionate memoir of his youth, when Drapes (punks) and Squares rumbled for the heart of a girl named Allison (perky Amy Locane). Waters' hole card is Johnny Depp, the winsome tough from TV's 21 Jump Street, who radiates big- screen grace and swagger as Cry-Baby -- no easy trick, since he is guying his own image...