Word: baits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just past daybreak on July 27, 1981, Robert Granberg and two friends set out from his home in Staten Island, N.Y., on a fishing trip. At a dock in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., they bought bait and rented a weathered 15-foot rowboat with a small outboard engine. "I hope none of us falls overboard," one of the men laughingly told a deckhand as they headed out to sea. "None of us can swim...
What followed was the gruesome result of lapses in communication and judgment. The station, which had alerted the police four separate times, contends it had worked out a deal to use the camera as "bait" to draw the troubled caller out of hiding so that police could apprehend him. Police Chief Paul Locke, 35, however, says there was no such deal. In any case, Simmons and Harris failed to notify the police of their arrival on the scene, an omission that both sides termed disastrous. Says Chief Locke:"I am very critical of their behavior...
...bait in Kurtz's plan is Charmian (called Charlie), an English actress whose haphazardly radical political involvements qualify her (á la Vanessa Redgrave) for the role Kurtz wants her to play. She is the rebellious middle-class type who could very well be swept away by a sensual young Palestinian and his burning desire to regain his homeland. Kurtz assigns Becker, an aging but still handsome Israeli war hero, to recruit Charlie and then teach her how to act in "the theater of deeds." A fictitious love affair must be fabricated between Charlie and the younger brother, whom...
...possible that the quarry, the more than 100 million people who ordinarily hover in front of the screen during prime time in this peak viewing month, will swim way from this costly bait? "hat they may be lured instead by Dallas or Magnum, P.I. on CBS, or Hill Street Blues on NBC? That they may (dire thought) turn to cable or flip on a video game? Or just decide to read Jane Austen? Of course it is. The bottom of the rating charts is Uttered with such failed mini-series as King, The French Atlantic Affair, MacArthur and Beggarman Thief...
Companies will dangle annual paychecks averaging about $26,000 before 1983 graduates, according to the Northwestern University Endicott Report, a nationwide survey. That bait will be only about 4.8% above 1982 offers, however, which were 11.8% higher than in 1981. Observes Gretchen Thompson, career planning and placement director at the U.C.L.A. Graduate School of Management: "There is a glut of M.B.A.s on the market. So many no-name schools are turning out M.B.A.s that companies are looking for only the very best students with the best grades from the best schools...