And then, as often happens, it became something of a business trap for virtually everyone involved.
Mogadishu may be getting safer for Somalis, but it remains a death trap for foreigners.
One proposed change would eliminate a trap for nonspoue IRA heirs that Forbes has warned about repeatedly.
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Bob Leonard did not have a booby trap for him, but he did have some angry words.
Rising home values have laid a trap for families aiming to send their kids to expensive private colleges.
"The dolphins use the strait as a natural trap for catching prey fish, just as people do, " she said.
She fears it is a potential death trap for children in the area.
She thinks that private valuations are too high, especially compared with public valuations, creating a potential trap for last-stage investors.
Erica Jong recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal that motherhood has become a trap for the modern mom.
This proved a trap for the insurers: For some life policies they were guaranteeing 5.5% annually but were earning far less.
Sony may be laying something of a trap for themselves if this turns out to be anything less than a next-gen announcement.
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It merely adds to the list of Chavez resource blunders, and looks an increasingly likely trap for other Americas producers to fall into.
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Opposition lawmakers have agreed to support it, although they fear that Mr de Venecia, an ally of Mrs Arroyo, is setting a trap for them.
The eurozone has proved a terrible trap for so many countries.
The circumstances of my visit to Buenos Aires were, as I now know, planned with all the care of someone setting a trap for a particular animal.
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.
It feels ever more like a trap for the unwary.
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Brown has only played once for Wales since and the Wales manager gave a subtle warning to Beaumaris-born Hennessey not to fall into the same trap for the sake of his career.
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.
The trap for the unwary has been that US law requires disclosure by individuals who do not live in the US and have not even visited the US as long as the person has a US passport or birth certificate, even if they are a dual citizen of another country.
Early French and English colonists worked and lived in the country's far reaches to trap beavers for their pelts.
Perhaps the timing of the announcement suggested someone, somwhere had spotted an early opportunity to set a test - or is that trap - for the former Rural Affairs Minister, Elin Jones, had she won the Plaid Cymru leadership.
The problem is that acquiring Anthony, a New York native who seems to be pining to return home after seven years in the Rockies, would be an expensive mistake for the Knicks, a case of falling into the same old trap of overpaying for a big splash.
Beware of the regulatory speed trap that exists for those who do not timely disclose reportable events.
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The visitors took the lead when Shane Long beat the offside trap and crossed for Noel Hunt, who scored for the third time in as many games.
Matthew Spriegel dislodged the dangerous Mascarenhas, when a sweep was held by Batty, to record his landmark dismissal, and the slow bowler struck again to trap Chris Tremlett for a duck.
Republican elders, meanwhile, sense an escape from the demographic trap they have set for themselves.
Baauer, whose real name is Harry Rodrigues, is a Brooklyn-based producer known for "trap" music, an electronic style that draws on hip-hop beats.
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