Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Projects like these cold not be undertaken without a tract of unspoiled land under University ownership. The wildlife center not only provides the laboratory, but it will also lure other accomplished biologists to Harvard. There are many people Harvard would like to appoint to the Faculty, Mayr explained, who have not been interested because "we didn't have the facilities for their work...
...prestige behind the most unusual departure in Soviet agriculture since the 1930s: a guaranteed wage for the kolkhozniks (collective farm laborers) that will make their income nearly equivalent to the earnings of factory workers. The move reflected the government's desire to make farm jobs attractive enough to lure and hold skilled labor, which tends to flock to cities...
...canvas. The acquaintanceship lasted only 5 sec., after which Cassius performed a surgical operation on the tissue surrounding Cooper's left eye. Ever since, Henry has been soaking his head in brine to toughen his skin. The success of the treatment was a matter of sufficient debate to lure 46,000 Britons to Arsenal Football Club Stadium last week and to persuade millions of Americans to tune in on a satellite-relay telecast. Could young Doctor Clay carve another notch in 'Enery's 'ardened...
...nothing predecessor, Conservative Guillermo Leon Valencia, Colombia's coffee-based economy has gone steadily downhill, the National Front itself splintered, and Rojas' opposition group in Congress effectively blocked all government legislation. By pushing a "bloodless revolution" of economic and social reforms, Lleras Restrepo hopes to lure some of the opposition to his side and win the two-thirds majority he needs to legislate. Otherwise, he seems prepared to extend the state of siege that Valencia declared last May, and run his country by decree if necessary...
...help lure back some of the country's moneywise mulattoes-as well as other investors and tourists-Papa Doc called a rare press conference last month in his palace in Port-au-Prince. "It is urgent," he said, "for every Haitian-wherever he is-to come home and work with the President and Cabinet and with every foreign investor that Haiti needs for its development. The Haitian soil belongs to every Haitian." The "explosive stage" of his revolution was over, Papa Doc promised, and now Haiti was entering the more humane "administrative stage...