Word: lure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fragments is a willfully inconclusive story of vanished Secret Service funds, estimated at (pounds)4 million, that are thought to have been used by Fiona to set up an intelligence network in East Germany. But one can never be sure. Deighton dangles quite a few possibilities that should lure readers on to future Samson adventures. In addition to dead men who do not stay dead, there may be a defector who may not be defective: a small hint is dropped that Fiona could be working for our side after all. When last seen, Bernie is on the run from...
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Reagan's man, William Bradford Reynolds, outraged minorities by breaking the Justice Department's long- standing alliance with civil rights organizations. The new appointee could help the G.O.P. lure nonwhite voters by reversing Reynolds' opposition to affirmative-action quotas. One key decision: whether the Administration should side with civil rights groups in opposing any rollback on discrimination suits brought under the Civil Rights Act of 1866 when the issue is argued before the Supreme Court next year...
...course, I understand the lure of final clubs, and I understand why many dozens of men will be joining these organizations this week. Harvard, as we all know, is a large and inhuman place in the guise of a small, private school, and therefore the alienation we all feel as students here is not only painful but confusing because it seems that we all ought to be on top of the world. But we're not. So we all do stupid things. Like join final clubs...
...vacantly watching commuters and families getting into cars, until the tracks behind me were once again empty. I had come to this little town to bury my mind in forgetfulness; it wasn't exactly a desolate port in nether-Morocco, and I saw no boozy-eyed sirens waiting to lure me into a self-destructive spiral of wanton liberalism which would tragically end in the complete disappearance from my memory of the Pledge of Allegiance, a jail term and eventual furlough, but I decided to go explore anyway...
...incident, in which at least two wardens were wounded, was the latest skirmish in a war that has pitted a growing army of rhino and elephant poachers against an outgunned force of rangers and police. The lure for poachers is great: prized in Asia as an aphrodisiac and in Yemen for making dagger handles, a single rhino horn can fetch as much...