Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME presented closeups of several individual athletes, many little known outside their home countries and specialties. Nineteen athletes appeared in a Neil Leifer photo essay that showed each of them against a background of a national landmark. In addition, nine American athletes, participating in events like archery that normally attract scant U.S. public attention, were introduced. How did these competitors fare in the Olympics...
...years through such steps as raising liquor taxes and reducing business deductions for luxury cars. But buried in the fine print of the 751-page 1984 Deficit Reduction Act is a fundamental change in the way the tax code treats foreigners who invest in the U.S. The measure could attract more money from overseas, which would help finance the U.S. budget deficit, hold down interest rates and perhaps spark a boom in the stock and bond markets. Indeed, the rally seemed to have already started last week...
Ticket Trader Donald McLarty of San Francisco got the idea for his U.S. Coupon Exchange in 1982, when a fellow traveler sold him a round-trip ticket to Hawaii for $100. Brokers like McLarty generally attract buyers and sellers through classified ads and then match them according to destination. Coupon selling is technically legal, but airlines differ in their attitude toward it. While American Airlines strictly forbids trading and Eastern plans to clamp down on the practice, Delta generally looks the other...
...short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...
...rehabilitation centers to learn another profession, and thousands of opium addicts were detoxified and put to work. At the same time, however, much of the reformed city's commercial life also withered. Only in the past few years has Shanghai regained the right to launch private busi nesses, attract foreign investments and keep some of the profits. The physical city is much the same as it was in 1949, but 35 years older, grayer and more than twice as crowded...