Word: lure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behind the counter says he predicts success for Chicago Frank's anticipating the run-off from Charlie's and hungry River Rats as his clientele. But Frank's isn't likely to lure too many Harvard students away from House grilles as long as it closes at 11 p.m., serves even its Basic Dogs for as much as $2.25 and fails to diversify its menu beyond wieners to include Polish sausage and cheeseburgers (which it is supposed to do shortly...
...avoided the lure of politics until 1980, when, with the P.R.I.'s backing, he was elected governor of his home state of Michoacan. By the end of his term in 1986, Cardenas was voicing doubts about the P.R.I.'s commitment to Mexico's poor. He was quickly informed by party leaders that such comments were unwelcome, even from governors with illustrious names...
While Dukakis was attracting talent to himself at Harvard, Ed King was proving an irresistible lure for incompetents and their predators in the statehouse. Leftovers from Dukakis' time, realizing how good things had been in the "bad old days," leaked embarrassing material on their clown-king, channeling it through Dukakis' government-in-exil e to the Boston Globe. The bad people were undoing Dukakis' reforms, and he went after them with his first ferocity, encouraging the leaks, playing up the grudge match he would win with King...
...dust off his expensive shoes. A few months later he ended his campaign, but organizers of the event remember that day in Sikeston the way others remember a death in the family. The 1976 race so discouraged Bentsen that he considered not running for re-election in 1982. The lure of becoming chairman of the Senate Finance Committee once the Democrats regained control changed his mind...
What makes the choice so masterful is that Dukakis has crossed party lines to snag one away from the Republicans. Say goodbye to that Massachusetts liberal tag. With Stewart, Dukakis can now lure voters back to the Democrats...