If this is a trap, it could be sprung very soon.

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On Tuesday, he said, This is a trap.

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"A bullish tone has been set, and we are not of the belief that this rally is a bull trap to be followed by a serious decline, " says volume-reversal specialist Mark Leibovit of VR Trader.

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Also, some linguistic work is done to make sure something the carmaker might be selling in Brazil doesn't mean "this car is a death trap" in Portuguese.

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Toyota is a company that fell into this trap.

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But the state is equally in a trap because of this looming requirement to provide welfare for people who no longer may be able to fulfil their own welfare needs.

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Now this could be a value trap if RIM truly missed the market and is on the verge of a major shift in customers.

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If, as his post-Vietnam record suggests, this amounts to a bait-and-switch trap for American voters, it is understandable that he would object to close scrutiny of the bait.

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If this medicine doesn't pan out, the next competitor to Avastin is VEGF-Trap, a treatment that Sanofi is developing with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: REGN - news - people ).

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