Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chamber is spurring a campaign to lure legitimate business back to Sunset Strip and close down porn establishments. One of its favorite techniques: to ask the city to inspect buildings for safety and zoning violations. Citizens have picketed notorious crossroads like the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue in protest against porn, and some 160,000 people signed a petition complaining against the sex merchants. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy...
...scheme collapsed. Two weeks ago, after Briarcliff s efforts to lure enough students to the new site proved futile, the New York Board of Regents dissolved the 75-year-old school's charter. Bennett, which filed bankruptcy proceedings last spring, will almost surely close down this week too. Meanwhile, a standing deficit has forced a third private women's college in New York State, twelve-year-old Kirkland, to merge next year with coordinate Hamilton College, a 165-year-old, previously all-male college in Clinton...
...Triangle's main lure is its close ties with the three nearby universities-a kind of entente cordiale between business and academia. Shucking the traditional snobbery of university scientists toward their colleagues in industry, professors gladly advise Triangle researchers, while the private scholars in turn teach courses at the universities. "Teaching a course forces me to go through the [scientific] literature and stay up to date," says A.G. Swan, who instructs grad students at N.C. State in addition to his duties as president of the research center for Becton, Dickinson & Co. People who work in the enclave like...
Indeed, to sociobiologists deceit is a crucial factor in evolution. Some birds, like the nighthawk, can feign a broken wing to lure predators away from a nest. In some avian species, a female that has been inseminated by a departed male may try to hide the fact, thus tricking a new male into investing his time and resources in offspring?and genes?that are not his. In the long run, however, natural selection sharpens up both the ability to cheat and the ability to detect cheating. Trivers and Dawkins suggest that the need for deceit?and for its detection?...
...money is going for such stunts. As insurance for the picture-as well as a lure for investors-Salkind and Spengler have hired some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. It sometimes seems as if the only ones who are not getting any of the producers' largesse are Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who created the man of steel...