Word: lure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line...
While traffic at the parks was robust, new attractions were needed to lure repeat customers. When Eisner and company took over, some rides were growing corny with age, especially in the Tomorrowland section of the parks, as real- life events were surpassing Disney's futurism. Says Eisner: "The park has to be extremely contemporary. If it's not, the kids won't think it's a rad place to be. If it's not innovative, then intelligent people will be bored or go somewhere else...
...young certainly do. Prosperity next door has become a magnet for young Hunanese, though they may still lack the skills to benefit quickly. Those who remain behind contend that the lure of Guangdong saps Hunan of its best and brightest. In Changsha, the capital of Hunan, one government functionary demands a radical solution. "We should not merely ask for higher prices for our rice and vegetables," he says. "We should demand 40% of Guangdong's foreign-exchange earnings. Otherwise we would really become its colony." Some Hunanese have gone so far as blockading the border to prevent the outflow...
...Heights, Mich.: "Every corner has a shopping center, and it's all your competition. They are up the street and down the street. If you just take a nap, you've lost it. It's as tough as I've ever seen." The company is looking for ways to lure customers into the stores. Some K marts have installed branches of First Nationwide bank. In an effort to change its cut-rate image, K mart has been refurbishing many of its stores to give them a glitzier look...
UNFORTUNATELY, like Sarah, Updike gets caught in the lure of the promiscuity he depicts. The book denigrates our fascination with titillation by titillating, and in the process becomes its own perverse reflection. Which may be the point of course, for S. is about the inevitability of cynicism in a world where moral transgression is impossible...