Word: beckoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that more and more colleges have heartlessly decided that undergraduate admissions are simply not competitive or difficult enough. Despite surges in applications each year and a nationwide frenzy to get into the best schools, many of these institutions beckon eager high school applicants with the "tough love" approach; they figure they'll make college admissions as difficult as possible, and then the student's acceptance will be that much sweeter...
...trips always took place during the summer, when the children of the families would be out of school. Thus came to be established the annual practice among us friends to gather every summer, as children who followed the adults to the city from which personal or professional obligations still beckon...
...receiving news of Kerry's decision not to run, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) offered a tribute to his colleague that seemed to beckon the senator to the national stage...
...Salinas affair has obviously embarrassed Citibank, a proud institution widely admired around the world. But the affair has done more: it has opened a door on the multibillion-dollar profits and potential pitfalls that beckon in a slice of the global banking business little known to the general public--a slice of the business that is growing rapidly, and for which Citigroup and its giant international rivals are competing ferociously...
...They beckon from supermarket-check-out racks with alluring packaging and absurdly tasty-sounding flavors: chocolate banana split, java chip, mocha latte swirl. But unlike candy and cookies, energy bars have staked out the nutritional high ground. They promise guilt-free bursts of energy and obscure but seemingly healthful extras--antioxidants, "fast-burn nutrition technology" and, in the breathless words of one, "31,000 mg amino acids...