When you are scheming on how to trap the customer from finding the exit you are not building a long-term brand.

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How do you protect yourself from falling prey to this trap?

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On the next hole Davis clambers into a sand trap with me to show me how to open the blade of my sand wedge for a short shot.

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The other night I fell into the trap of complaining to my wife Eleanor about how busy and stressed I was, even though I knew how busy and stressed she was.

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There's a vial of a substance he calls KimSim, a material his girlfriend helped create to figure out how to rescue the Spirit rover after it got stuck in a "sand trap" of alien soil on Mars in 2009.

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Well, PC World has cracked open the trap-door on their HDTV testing lab to show everyone how they do it.

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And there's another hint as to just how well-loved the priceless painting is on the floor beneath it: The outline of a trap door.

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The likeliest outcome is therefore neither a sudden, history-altering reduction in defence spending, nor a quick fix that lets Congress wriggle out of its trap, but a drawn-out and perhaps salutary election-year debate about how much defence to buy at a time of distress.

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