Word: lure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard also attempted unsuccessfully to lure away both Rudiger Dornbusch and Stanles Fischer from MIT between 1980 and 1982 leading to speculation that the department, are "raiding" each other for faculty members...
...present form, Rice's story has holes to plug and a narrative in need of streamlining, but it offers him a contemporary setting for his favorite theme: the pernicious lure of stardom, whether biblical, political or intellectual. His lyrics mix roguish wit (Bangkok contains the unlikely couplet "Tea, girls--warm and sweet--warm, sweet/ Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite") with the blistering bitterness of Evita. Andersson and Ulvaeus' score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with...
...familiar advertisement calls for "a few good men," but the Marine Corps manages to lure some pretty good women as well. Last week a Marine promotion board recommended the advancement of Colonel Gail Reals to brigadier general. A career officer with 30 years' experience, Reals, 49, is the first woman Marine to reach the one-star rank since the corps integrated its male and female ranks in 1981. After Senate confirmation, she will join eleven other female generals and admirals serving in the armed forces...
...added, though, that there has been no formal offer from the University to lure him back...
Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '52 declined to comment on whether or hot the University is attempting to lure Gilbert back, but did say that people with Gilbert's "abilty and ingenuity are desirable to have around...