Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the fortress-like structure, however, everything was different. In a $10 million renovation that is still going on, the "world's largest store"* is trying to shake its dowdy image and lure the fashion-and style-conscious shopper of the 1970s. Gone are the ground-floor budget counters where shoppers elbowed for hats, scarves and socks. Gone also are the unimaginative displays of cut-rate drugs and the dull racks of styleless garments. In their places are gleaming glass cases of jewelry and perfume, flanked by gold-crowned marble columns and overhung by glittering chandeliers. A plush green...
...other stores around the U.S., which for the year ended last July 30 earned $53 million on sales of $1.7 billion. Worse still, the New York store was in a deteriorating part of the city: only two blocks away, hookers line West 32nd Street trying to lure customers into sleazy hotels...
...there are no simple answers or ready remedies. Ways need to be found to lure runaways into safe havens where they can be cared for and counseled. Certainly the penalties for those adults who exploit the young for sex must be stiffened-and uniformly enforced...
Giscard and Chirac are united on one point: the need of the center-right parties to lure back "floaters"?voters who have drifted away to support the leftist alliance. The President has left electioneering rhetoric to his fiscal wizard and current premier, Raymond Barre, who has spoken of "enlarging" the center-right alliance and "welcoming new elements." Characteristically, Chirac was more hard-hitting. At an election rally he declared: "To those who left us in good faith and who now feel deceived and abused, I say: 'Come back to us!' " If only a small percentage of French voters abandon...
...steps to improve the energy program that sailed through the House almost intact. One would be to phase out controls on natural gas, leaving prices to find their own level in a free market. The present controlled price of $1.47 per 1,000 cu. ft. is too low to lure enough gas out of the ground-as witness last winter's factory and school closings. A move to deregulate has run afoul of an on-again, off-again filibuster by Senators from states that rely heavily on low gas prices. The most likely compromise will be an increase...