Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gest executive recruiting agency. Accordingly, in partnership with Manhattan's Hoff, Canny, Bowen & Associates, Inc., Sir Walter has set up a global headhunting agency called Management Selection International. With Puckey as chairman, the organization will find local managers for U.S. firms operating overseas, also hopes to lure back to England British scientists who emigrated to the U.S. for higher pay. Already the new agency has pegged its first hole by finding an Englishman to work for an American firm in Africa...
High & Low Life. In the face of a population decline in many central cities, the mayors and city planners are working hard to lure back suburban defectors-and head off any further exodus. "There is a great disenchantment with the suburbs," says New York's Mayor Wagner. "Many people are moving back to town." To attract them, Chicago is planning the construction of 50,000 new dwelling units in the heart of the city by 1980, has already cast at least one spectacular lure: the 65-story, twin-towered Marina City, with pie-wedge apartments and balconies with...
...give the lonely, unhappy boy the love his father refuses. She also gives him the lust she cannot give her husband. When the seizure passes, she sees that the experience has almost destroyed her brother; appalled by the power of darkness in her life, she longs for salvation. Voices lure her into "another world," promising that there she will see God. All at once, in her mind's delirious eye, she does see God. He is an enormous spider. She is carried off to a madhouse...
...your own inimitable style you quote Stefan George about the "indignity of being understood." It seems to me that you often do this sort of thing to lure on your readers in the complacent knowledge that you are not going to take them to task for lack of understanding. The blame will be most assuredly leveled at the poets...
...NATION), and there were some local harassments in Berlin. But after a secret conference with East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, a Khrushchev communiqué omitted the standard polemics, contained only a mild mention of Berlin and West Germany as topics on the agenda. Meanwhile, Khrushchev kept trying to lure various heads of state to Geneva next week so that the 18-nation disarmament talks would, in his chummy phrase, "start in the right direction." No major power succumbed, but both the U.S. and Britain warmed slightly to the notion of a summit meeting, possibly in June, if preliminary discussion...