Shorten said the decision to cut funding, deregulate fees and increase interest rates on student loans represented "a trifecta of shame which will destroy the dreams of ordinary Australians to send their kids to university".
Seeing themselves within reach of winning the Senate majority in 2012, Republicans are eager to watch threatened Democratic incumbents forced to vote for a package that could represent a politically unappetizing trifecta: a debt ceiling increase, reductions in popular social programs like Medicare and possible tax increases.
"It's basically a trifecta for justice," Saul Kassin, a professor of psychology at Williams College and John Jay College, and a leading expert on false confessions, said.
The famous Willie Horton ad, for example, was a trifecta for all three of the primitive states I discuss in State of Confusion.
Many shoppers seek out food with red labels, which represent a kind of sustainable agriculture trifecta.
Shaw is represented by a trifecta of prestigious commercial galleries, including Metro Pictures in New York, Blum & Poe in Culver City and Simon Lee in London.
And if that's the case, I'd recommend a trifecta of therapy: for you, for your husband and for the two of you together.
That scenario would have been a trifecta more delicious for the Mets than anything they could have concocted.
Now Huckabee is going for a trifecta: "HUCK RIPS PORTMAN'S PREGNANCY" is the headline at Politico.
If you're in the mood for a trifecta, you can still buy lunch at Nathan's and lose it, in installments, aboard the Wonder Wheel and the Cyclone.
