Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gitters. When Orval Faubus took office as Governor in 1955, one of his first important acts was to establish the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission to lure manufacturing to the state. Win Rockefeller was the obvious choice to head it. Rockefeller was so determined to make the agency work that he personally padded the salaries of key staff members to induce them to stay with the commission. One of the commission's first big catches was a $57 million International Paper plant, completed in 1958. During Rockefeller's nine years as chairman, 600 new plants were built, providing...
These assumptions are faulty; sadomasochism and homosexuality are not tickets to wisdom. Nor are they always as directly evil as Warhol pretends. The high school thugs who went to the park on Friday nights to lure homosexuals and then beat them and steal their money effected more evil than these victims could...
...than are found in most primitive cultures. The most persistent myth is that girth somehow determines worth, a legend that one doctor says stems from the fact that many of the early Italian singers seemed to be congenitally fat. Today, however, with the emphasis on realistic drama and the lure of TV and films, the net weight of the singers has dropped a ton or two since the early 1900s. Still, most of them are not exactly skinny. Singing opera is extremely demanding physically; and generally, the heartier the singer, the heartier the singing. Some fans of Maria Callas contend...
...whole squad there is the final lure of a possible tie for the Ivy championship, if Harvard wins and if Columbia upsets Brown in New York Saturday...
...Lure. Many economists warn that the fast wage pace must be slowed if European prosperity is not to be seriously undermined by inflation. Europe, nonetheless, has made the same transition to a worker-boosted consumer economy that the U.S. made in the years that followed the wars. And the surge in consumer buying power has been a main lure to American companies investing abroad...