Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, not all of us choose to study. Some of us go out to play frisbee or head down to the Grille. But those things are important, too. Everyone has their own trick; the key element is the freedom involved, the security of knowing the hours are available to you if you need them...
...have an easy solution: Simply adjust the commitment. Like a patient in a hospital, we just change the dosage to attain a more pleasurable state. And how easy it is to change the commitment. A short e-mail or phone message, or a cup of coffee will do the trick...
RICHARD JEWELL FBI agents in Atlanta were under tremendous pressure from headquarters to make progress in solving the Olympic Park bombing. So they came up with a scheme to trick Jewell into being interviewed by saying it was part of a training tape. Freeh was monitoring the investigation closely and called to insist that the agents inform Jewell of his Miranda rights. At that point Jewell smelled something funny, stopped talking and asked to see his lawyer. When the case against him collapsed, veterans blasted Freeh for botching their scheme to trick him into talking. Never mind that they were...
...Iron Lady, Major's camp figured, why not try it again? Trouble is, Blair's view that employees should be permitted to join a union if a majority vote to do so is neither new nor particularly objectionable. Still, Blair reasoned, simply stating the facts might not do the trick--and he dearly wanted to spike the Tory attack since it struck at the very heart of his hard-won Labour Party reforms...
...world's highest peak. "With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," said New Zealander Rob Hall, a respected climber who headed Adventure Consultants, the best-known of the guiding outfits. Hall added, in a comment that was to echo mournfully, "The trick is to get back down alive...