Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Sean Lemass wanted most was to lure foreign investors over O'Connell Bridge. The new Prime Minister sent blarney-blessed salesmen around the world persuading foreign industries to set up plants in Ireland. They offered one of the few labor surpluses in all Europe, liberal grants for equipment and construction, and additional cash to companies that would build plants and train workers in Ireland's pinched northwest and south...
...none of these reasons convince you, then perhaps the fact that the Summer News is serving ice cold beer and coke at its party for prospective staffers tonight will lure you. The session begins at 7:30 p.m. at the CRIMSON building, 14 Plympton...
...have pondered the lives of the five strange Pauline Popes who preceded him. The first Paul (757-67) was a zealous defender of theological orthodoxy who squabbled endlessly with the Byzantine Emperor on religious problems. The second (1464-71) was a carnival-loving Renaissance prince who tried to lure Russian Orthodoxy into union with Rome. The third (1534-49) was a reformer of sorts who gave his own son and nephews cardinalates, yet also convoked the great Council of Trent. The fourth (1555-59) was an unlamented inquisitor, who boasted: "Even if my own father were a heretic, I would...
William Hickling Prescott never visited Spain. Friends tried to lure him there during his many tours of Europe, and so did the Spanish government. But Prescott had a Spain in his mind, and he wanted nothing to mar that image. Prescott's Spain was a darkly dramatic land, and he populated it with villains of incredible baseness and heroes of astounding virtue. In so doing he became one of the most famous American historians of the 19th century...
...companies are borrowing proportionately less now because high profits and liberalized depreciation allowances have made them very liquid; so the bankers are becoming increasingly solicitous toward the small customer. Since they want his checking and savings accounts as well as his loan business, they are using almost every lure that money...