Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minimum annual growth rate of 4%, conceding labor's right to demand a 3.5% wage boost if this is achieved. Though he disappointed many industrialists by not introducing European-style incentives for exporters, Maudling installed a set of ingenious tax concessions designed to modernize productive equipment and lure new industry into the areas of heavy unemployment. Added to sizable previous concessions to industry that he had already granted since taking over as Chancellor last July, Maudling hoped that his new budget incentives would put the economy in fighting trim by next April-which is about the time when Britain...
...lure of growing significance is the Air Force's offer to pay for graduate studies predominantly in the natural sciences and at the same time pay an officer his regular salary. The scheme is aimed particularly at the science and engineering major; 70 percent of the members of AFROTC are natural science concentrators compared to a Harvard average of 30 per cent...
...general limited disarmament agreement readily understandable. The Soviet Union realizes that if it grants the test-ban, meaningful negotiations for a disarmament agreement will cease. Since Russia wants to end the economic strain of heavy arms production, the Kremlin insists on linking the two in order to lure the United States into an agreement...
...whether to cut themselves into the easy money. In Texas, a group of business leaders has contributed $167,000 to promote racing, has the support of such colorful legislators as San Antonio's Virgil Berry, who told a ministerial association that it need not fear that racing would lure prostitutes, since "we already got plenty of prostitutes to meet the demands." A subcommittee of the Iowa legislature has favorably reported a racing bill. In Idaho, where at least five previous legislatures passed a pari-mutuel law only to see Governors veto it, the present legislature recently overrode Governor Robert...
Gamal Abdel Nasser still had the most popular commodity in the Middle East-the lure of Arab unity...