Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, the investments did not flourish as the Chiasso bankers hoped they would. Then, in late 1976, the Italian government, which hoped to lure home lire, offered a blanket amnesty to all Italians who would bring back their money. Result: withdrawals were so large that Crédit Suisse's branch in Chiasso was forced to turn for help to the home office in Zurich. The head office's investigation led to police involvement. Three Chiasso bankers, including Branch Manager Ernst Kuhrmeier, have been arrested on charges of criminal mismanagement...
...clubs have ripped up the grass in the ballparks and installed artificial surfaces ("the cheaper spread"). Pitchers in the American League no longer take their cuts at the plate; some thing called a designated hitter does that for them. Thanks to the delay of league play-offs and the lure of prime-time TV ratings, World Series games are regularly played on frigid October evenings. Last fall in Cincinnati, Angell notes, "the wretched, blanket-wrapped, huddled masses in the stands flumped their mittened paws together in feeble supplication, pleading now for almost any result that would send them home...
...press has grossly exaggerated the actual salaries baseball stars receive. Sources involved in the industry say that figures reported in the media should be discounted by one-third. Owners release inflated contract amounts to reassure the public that players are well paid. This tactic seems devised to lure the fans to management's camp, as if there were a baseball salary war and both players and owners needed the largest contingent of allies...
...wiretapping a phone used by union organizers. In 1975, a North Carolina tax official found the company had not reported $75 million of taxable income in 22 plants since 1969. A secret agreement was then reportedly discovered proving that county officials and Stevens had made a deal to lure the firm there...
Sondheim's pearls are strung together so as to link his guiding themes. He turns obsessively to the tensions and tenacity of marriage, its tidal lure and its shipwreck debris. Almost at the moment that his songs brighten with the delights of love, they darken with the pain of love's transience and loss. Sondheim's inner beat is the tempo of Manhattan and Broadway. His scores are minidramas. His people are night people, thirsting for fame and applause and always vulnerable to the morning-after of the defeated quest. Some of Sondheim's songs...