Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Insurance Co.-and surrendered title to most of Reston's land, for which he had paid $13 million. But expenses mounted while house sales (only 582 so far) lagged behind. Many of Reston's starkly modern town houses proved too costly ($35,000 to $47,000) to lure buyers. In an effort to assure full occupancy of the 15-story apartment tower that makes Reston a symbol of urbanity in the boondocks, rents were set too low to repay the mortgage loan. As Gulf took over, Vice President William L. Henry estimated that Reston would need an injection...
...people (v. more than 40% under outright Viet Cong control or in sharply contested areas at the beginning of 1965). A telling piece of evidence is the flight of more than 1,000,000 South Vietnamese to the cities in the past year. Whatever their reasons-war-weariness, the lure of jobs or plain fear of the guerrillas-their exodus has markedly reduced the Viet Cong's rural base...
...fight against urban slums, one huge reservoir of money and talent-the business community-has been largely overlooked. Now, with a powerful economy mood in Washington blocking any large new federal programs, urban spokesmen, both in Congress and the Johnson Administration, are looking for ways to lure private industry into the ghettos. Business, in turn, seems to be awakening to its opportunities as well as its responsibilities in the cities. Last week, as proof, the nation's life insurance industry pledged to invest $1 billion in the slums...
...came to power, and has since won three elections. When fellow party members suggested that he run for Diefenbaker's job, Stanfield at first demurred. For a man who has "always been able to keep a part of myself out of politics," he says, there was little al lure to a job that he likened to "a commitment to enter the priesthood...
...LURE OF THE LIMERICK by William S. Baring-Gould. 246 pages. Potter...