Word: lure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using these lives as a capacious data base, Bender claims that New York is America's only possible intellectual salvation. Only a large, bustling and--most important--creative metropolis can lure professors back to the People. Only New York City, he argues for 300-plus pages, can sully the pristine Ivory tower and in the process end higher education's self-satisfaction and utter irrelevence...
...fiercest airline battles in the U.S., United is engaged in an all-out campaign to win friends and influence people to switch over from its rival's flights. In one United tactic, eager agents sidle up to unwary travelers as they pass through the terminal and lure them onto United flights with such promised incentives as earlier arrival times, better tasting food and superior service. Another strategy is to check computer listings for United customers who plan to change planes at the Denver hub for a Continental flight; those passengers are paged to the United counter and presented with...
Whitney was Daddy's girl, and the lure was mutual. "I used to give her flowers," says John, 66, who runs Whitney's three companies. "I helped her with term papers in high school -- she'd call me on Tuesday for a paper due on Wednesday. She's always been great with that 'Daddy' bit." Says Whitney: "He was Mom's support network while she was on tour. He changed diapers, cooked, did my hair and dressed me, all the while providing Mom with advice and answers...
...bank's main customers, complied. In Singapore, which is 76% Chinese, the newly completed Hyatt Regency was suffering from a lack of business in 1971 when a feng shui master advised that the hotel's fountain and facade be remodeled to rid the hotel of unhappy spirits and lure back Chinese guests discouraged by stories of its bad feng shui. The occupancy rate is now said to be gratifyingly higher...
...Loury accepted a lifetime post atHarvard where he "would gain a lot more visibilitythan at Ann Arbor," Stafford said. He involvedhimself in public policy issues and in 1984 afterMIT tried to lure him away, he made the switchfrom the Economics Department to the K-School...