Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government bonds, bills and notes fared no better than private issues. To attract buyers at its regular Monday auction of six-month bills, the Treasury had to boost the interest rate on the bills to a record 15.854%. Six months ago, it had to offer only 13.611% to sell the six-month bills...
These Spanish beginnings persisted in the speech and methods of the American cowpoke. The Texas style of capturing wild mustangs, for instance, was pure Mexican gone loco. A human dummy was lashed to the back of a roped horse. Set free, the terrified galloping animal would attract as many as 1,000 other mustangs, which then could easily be corralled...
...prairie. The Wall Drug Store in Wall, S.Dak. (pop. 800), 50 miles east of Rapid City, is a three-generation family business that this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. Its standing offer of free ice water, and coffee for 5?-as much as you can drink of both-helps attract as many as 20,000 customers on a busy summer day, maybe a million a year...
...story of how his wife Dorothy penned some doggerel ("Get a soda, get a beer, turn next corner, just as near, to Highway 16 and 14, free ice water, Wall Drug") to attract thirsty motorists has assumed Arthurian dimensions in South Dakota. Remembers Ted: "We hardly got back to the store from putting the sign up before people started turning in." Before long, billboards sprouted along the highways in every direction; someone once counted 53 along a 45-mile stretch. G.I.s tacked up Wall Drug signs as they made their way through Europe in World War II. The same thing...
...million program to spruce up Norfolk's dreary waterfront. The project, about half the size of Harborplace, will employ much the same concept and include four or five restaurants, up to 20 other eating establishments and as many as 50 stores. Rouse estimates that the development will attract up to 6 million visitors in its first year. The foundation will concentrate, as a commercial company cannot, on what Rouse calls "the crucial necessity for inventing new processes, new systems for dealing with social needs." He explains: "We will be working with the very poor. We will set up a list...