Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lure of Wheels. But at least 90% of the halls, arenas and playing fields are ready for the athletes and the crowds. Last gaps in the new $55 million monorail from refurbished Haneda air port to downtown Tokyo Station are being closed. Partially completed elevated highways have cut the road time from airport to city to 40 minutes or so. The high-speed railway that will carry passengers the 300 miles from Tokyo to Osaka in three hours is ready to run-but company officials must figure out how to curb suicide-minded Nipponese who want to be among...
...been an ambush, with the phony cemetery as a lure. Quickly Call launched the South Vietnamese battalions, supported by five tanks and 14 armored personnel carriers against the Viet Cong defense positions. The Reds proved to be dug into three lines consisting of foxholes, dugouts and bunkers with escape tunnels. While the armor made a frontal assault, 15 helicopters and T-28s raked the Reds with ma chine guns, rockets and flaming napalm...
...South, which paced the nation with a 6% rise in personal income last year, will continue to lure industry with sunshine, low-wage labor and generous tax concessions. Last week multimilliondollar expansion programs were announced by Lockheed in Georgia, International Paper in Alabama, Reynolds Metals in Florida, Allied Chemical in South Carolina. Growth in chemicals and oil helped lift personal income in Louisiana well above the national average of 5% last year...
Since the enactment of the first right-to-work law in Florida in 1944, the movement has been hotly debated in virtually every state, but has been really successful only in the Plains, Southwestern and Southeastern states, where the laws have been passed mainly to lure industries from union-dominated Northern states. Opponents, led by the chiefs of organized labor, have countered the lure argument with a statistic that again proved to be forceful in last week's Oklahoma election: the states with right-to-work laws have an annual per capita income of $379 less than the national...
There is a more relaxed atmosphere in the liberal arts college, but even there danger threatens. "The lure of dollars for scholarly research is a strong enticement, to say the least," Dean David Truman of Columbia College said last week. "Only the best-established liberal arts college can withstand such pressures, and it remains to be seen whether they can do so much longer...