Word: lure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Missouri's affluent St. Louis County, McDonald's recently offered free movie tickets to passersby in order to fill a hall with youngsters for a hiring spiel. In Dublin, Ohio, Denny Lynch, a vice president of Wendys International, says that the burger chain is looking into scholarships as a lure to start young people on an up-from-the-bottom career with the company...
Miami is now trying to lure scientists and prospective scientists by stressing research opportunities in such regionally important fields as weather science, marine biology, tropical diseases and geriatric ailments among Florida's huge senior citizen population. "We're rapidly becoming this generation's Stanford," exults Foote. But if Miami's reach still exceeds this bold grasp, Ash is convinced the school's recent steps have been in the right direction: "We're not educating the masses anymore." Apparently not. Tuition will...
...important political theorist," Putnamsaid, adding that it was a "coup" to lure Thompsonaway from Princeton, which tried very hard to keephim...
...last week like the most impatient blossoms of spring. Banks, brokerages and other financial organizations sprinkled them across their newspaper ads, pasted them up in their windows and posted them on billboards. In an extravaganza that gets noisier every year, the institutions were making their last-minute pitches to lure millions of consumers who were shopping for investment vehicles for their individual retirement accounts...
...Braves owner Ted Turner, the genius behind that 4:30 a.m. fireworks display, was involved in another debacle in recent years, when he let Phil Niekro go to the Yankees, and then proceded to try to lure him back once he shone in the Big Apple. (Turner ended up settling for a statue of Neikro). Knucksie is also the oldest current major leaguer, having just celebrated another birthday on April 1. Five points if you can name Phil's exact age, and five more if you can identify the only player on the list below who is older than Niekro...