Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leonard, owner of N.Y.C.'s the Spy Store: "You need trained military personnel, night-vision equipment, trick trip wires and intrusion detection. Put stakes in the ground so you can hear or feel footsteps where they shouldn't be. Otherwise, close down Pennsylvania Avenue...
...caucus is planning a concentration fair and the Freshman Formal, and it helped organize Halloween trick-or-treating in the Yard...
...team used a clever, indirect method of measuring the age of the universe. First the scientists determined the distance to a group of galaxies called the Virgo cluster. Then they took advantage of a trick first used by Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who discovered, back in the 1920s, that the universe is expanding -- and for whom the space telescope was named. If the whole cosmos is blowing up like a balloon, Hubble reasoned, then you can calculate backward to see when the balloon began to inflate...
...recorded a hat trick in the Lions' 3-2 win against Princeton, a result that kept the Lions alive in the Ivy championship picture. He also scored two goals in the team's 7-0 destruction of Fordham...
...President Boris Yeltsin's government since "Black Tuesday," theOct. 11 ruble crash, intensified today as two top ministers left office. Yeltsin fired a senior Russian defense official, received the resignation of a leading economic reform advocate and appointed his third finance minister in four weeks. Preceding today's hat trick by three days, the Russian leader dismissed his first deputy defense minister, a general accused of corruption. The government said little about the impact of the tumult on continued economic reform, but the official who resigned today -- economics minister Alexander Shokhin -- said: "The economy has become a hostage of politics...