• We will release every vulture that's in that trap today and re-bait it in preparations for Tuesday's attempt.

    NPR: NASA Sets New Discovery Launch Date for July 4

  • Others trap workers in low-paid fields such as child care, and some even signal to employers the holder's weak academic record.

    ECONOMIST: Skills

  • The Germans - indeed northern Europe - have created a trap for themselves in which it is either fiscal union or a rough-hewn fiscal union in which the ECB does the heavy lifting, in defiance of its mandate and culture, and the instincts of the national central banks.

    BBC: The Sarko smackdown!

  • Sylvain Ebanks-Blake then doubled that lead on eight minutes after beating the off-side trap to finish in the corner.

    BBC: Cardiff 1-2 Wolves

  • To accomplish this unique approach, Organon chemist Anton Bom came up with a molecule that resembles a hungry octopus, with eight chemical "arms" that can grab the muscle relaxant and trap it in a maw-like hole.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Conservation efforts and trap-and-transfer programs, in which turkeys were caught and moved to under-populated areas, brought the population back to healthy levels by the 1960s.

    BBC: Shooting a Thanksgiving dinner

  • "The principle of Universal Credit is sound but our research has found the actual roll-out could unintentionally trap people in poverty and hardship, " the organisation's chief executive Julia Unwin said.

    BBC: Queue outside a Jobcentre Plus

  • But William Tew, the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York who conducted the VEGF-Trap study, cautions that the Avastin study looked at less-sick cancer patients, who had failed fewer drugs.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Others suspect a poverty trap in the making, with people stuck with low skills in low-wage jobs.

    ECONOMIST: A bit more unequal, a lot more efficient

  • Choate, an expert in the arcane and trap-strewn area of inherited IRAs.

    FORBES: Estate planning

  • Lindsay Lohan's youngest fans know her as both the freckle-faced girl from The Parent Trap...and an out-of-control young woman in trouble with the law.

    CNN: Having the sex talk: Is your tween too sexy too soon?

  • And you wake up in the morning and you see them and would rather chew your arm off than wake them up -- like a coyote in a trap.

    CNN: Piper Perabo

  • But the country is stuck in a low-growth trap.

    ECONOMIST: Aid for Argentina

  • His spending program, known locally as the Economic Transformation Plan, is a bid to drag Malaysia out of the so-called middle-income trap, which forces many emerging economies to compete with each other in producing cheap exports instead of developing more-sophisticated, value-added products.

    WSJ: Malaysia's Leader Urges Unity After Tense Vote

  • Less than two weeks later, an undercar booby-trap bomb was found lying on a road in west Belfast.

    BBC: Dissident republicans 'remain determined to kill'

  • Methane hydrates are frozen water molecules that trap methane gas molecules in a crystalline, lattice-like structure known as a hydrate.

    FORBES

  • One big economic reason why countries get stuck in this "middle-income trap" is that they reach what is known as the " Lewis Point".

    BBC: China: Does it have to become more like us?

  • So she teams up with a game warden (Bill Pullman), a lawman (Brendan Gleeson), and a hairy crocophile (Oliver Platt) to find the beast and slay it or rather, this being part of the eco-friendly horror genre, to trap it alive in the interests of science and ogling.

    NEWYORKER: Lake Placid

  • The prime minister has vowed to tackle "absurd barriers to mixed-race adoption" which he says trap many children in care.

    BBC: Adoption: David Cameron vows to cut adoption delays

  • Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan - the best ones, you know, the ones that really were - imply something specific, but don't trap themselves in that, you know, the tar pit of that moment.

    NPR: Joe Henry Is a Still Driving Man

  • Over the last couple of weeks, many prominent economists, several of which have the ear of Ben Bernanke, have come out and said that massive QE2 is a horrible idea given that we are in a liquidity trap and it could have long-term damaging inflation implications.

    FORBES: Helicopters Throwing Fewer Dollars Is A Good Thing

  • And VEGF-Trap seemed to cause fewer bowel perforations, a big problem in the earlier Avastin study.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And Europe's housing markets are caught in an unenviable trap because so many households have variable-rate mortgages.

    ECONOMIST: Finance

  • For example, one of them, Bucking Bronco, can launch enemies in the air or create a proximity-based trap.

    FORBES: A Hands-On Demo of BioShock: Infinite

  • Can it avoid the death-trap theory that prosperity causes inflation, a superstition still widespread in our own Federal Reserve Bank?

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • It is a depressing state of affairs when about two-thirds of our fellow citizens are caught in an economic trap that is wrecking their lives financially and emotionally.

    CNN: Carville: What if the rich lost 40% of their wealth?

  • Here's an off-the-rack sports car with lateral adhesion in the range of 1 g, a car that hits 60 mph in 4 seconds (the 394-horsepower Carrera S with the dual-clutch PDK gearbox), a car that trips the trap lights in about 12 seconds and decelerates from 60 mph to 0 in about 100 feet.

    WSJ: 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S Review: A Magnificent First Stab | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil

  • We owned no car and Paddy had been driving me in a horse and trap to the Loreto convent, a red-brick building on a hill overlooking Youghal bay, where the nuns were slowly teaching me to read and write.

    NPR: Cockburn's 'Broken Boy,' a Memoir of Survival

  • Opportunity has been trundling around Mars ever since, though it was designed for only a ninety-day mission. (Spirit got stuck in a sand trap in 2009 and quit transmitting nearly a year later.) It never found the lake bed, or organic material of any kind.

    NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

  • If Republicans choose to use these strategic gains to fight for spending cuts and future entitlement reforms in exchange for higher taxes, they will have fallen into the austerity trap that perpetuates the financial crisis in Europe and will have squandered their new-found position of strength.

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