Word: trappings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sometimes there’s nothing quite as selfish as generosity,” he said. But despite the knowledge that generosity brings more happiness, why are people more inclined to spend money on themselves? Norton says that money has the power to “trap you.” “Once you get money, you start thinking less about how to use it for others,” he said. As for college students, a demographic not known for having much disposable income, Ben-Shahar said that these principles have implications beyond just money...
...Many Democrats still worry that the Treasury plan could prove a preemptive anti-regulatory trap - hardly the first time Bush has pulled off such a gambit. On fuel efficiency standards, Bush and the auto industry insisted on holding out against tough new restrictions until it became clear that the House and Senate could produce a veto-proof majority. At that point, Bush and the industry backed lesser standards, which eventually became law. More recently, Bush intervened in mid-March to soften new anti-ozone regulations after the EPA had concluded that tough new standards were necessary...
...Hair is a good trap for all those things flowing through the blood system," says Ehleringer. Traces of the food, water and air we breathe show up in our hair (as do drugs and heavy metals). Some 85% of the variation in isotope levels in a person's hair is explained by variations in drinking water isotope levels in areas they spent time. This "isotope signature" from water is not complicated by other beverages because many of them are made using local water...
...Outside shooting was a good plan. McGeary tried for another one, but he was fouled. He hit all three free throws. Then, an extended Harvard man trap gave Jeremy Lin a steal and a coast-to-coast lay in. It's a ballgame! Princeton 55, Harvard...
...wasn't supposed to say yes. A reporter interviews a movie star at a restaurant or a hotel lobby or an office, with his publicist lurking in the corner, ready to cut off any vaguely interesting questions. But to come over to my house for dinner? That's a trap no sucker has ever shoved a famous foot into. Partly because there are so many unknowns-you're stuck alone chatting up the family while the reporter cooks, you accidentally let slip a cruel joke about a wedding photo, you somehow use the bathroom wrong-and partly because...