Word: poached
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, I also tend to poach the bills out of her piggy bank late at night to pay the baby sitter or the pizza guy. (One night I even dipped into her petty cash to slip a buck under her pillow from the tooth fairy...
...survive, and he prefers that to President Gore anyway. But he has no easy way out. It is not at all clear that 20 extra seats after November would make resolution of the mess any easier; indeed, if a big G.O.P. victory is read as a mandate to slowly poach the President, then impeachment becomes harder to quell. "They never have exit strategies," says a White House official. "They only have strategies for confrontation...
...work, as a whole, is meant to show no affectation of fine writing, not does it lay claim to literary excellence. The Advocate has this ground by right of possession; we do not attempt to rival it in deux d'esprit, or in cunningness of speculation, or otherwise poach upon its preserves. We shall be content with the humbler task of satisfying the curiosity of our readers about what is going on in Cambridge, and at other colleges, and of giving them an opportunity to express their ideas upon practical questions. It ought to be added perhaps, that, while...
Hart began publishing his pieces electronically--strictly for pleasure, not profit. Indeed, he warned readers that if he caught anyone trying to poach his stuff, he would "hunt them down like the suture-headed mutants they are." Two years later, his site was drawing a couple thousand visitors a day. Until, that is, the evil lawyers interceded...
Competition is spreading off the interstates and onto state roads, where a federal law further deregulated trucking in 1995. Texas truckers were among the most protected. But now, for example, an operator from Oklahoma can poach on Texas locals' business. Bell says he has not tried to haul within his state "because we don't have a need." In other words, he's got all the competition he can handle on the interstate right...