Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eaves has pushed a number of new tactics, with the help of federal funds from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. A squad of cops disguised as tramps and winos was set up to lure muggers, and high-crime areas were assigned a special force of additional patrolmen. Says Eaves: "We're trying to become as unpredictable for the criminal as the criminal...
Popular Front. Revel admits that Communists can effectively exploit the contradictions in capitalist societies to lure nations to disaster. They "destroy, in the name of socialism, political democracy and install systems that are neither democratic nor socialist and that are, to boot, economically and humanely very inferior to capitalism." One step on that road to destruction, Revel warns, is the popular front. Through it, Communists gain a respite in their struggle with the right when the right is too strong for direct confrontation; they also frustrate the building of a reformist bloc by splitting its potential members be tween...
...says, is a "flag" to young graduates--saying, in effect, There are people like you here, plenty of them. He thinks Cambridge has eclipsed San Francisco in that respect, and now stands as a formidable post-graduate Mecca. Why should Harvard students, he asks, be immune to that lure...
Foxes in Russian fables are foxier than any imagined by La Fontaine. One tries to lure his prey out of a tree by an impassioned appeal for public morality: "O chanticleer, my beloved child! You are sitting on a tall tree and thinking thoughts that are evil and accursed. You cocks keep many wives: some of you have as many as ten of them, some twenty, some thirty; with time their number reaches even forty! Come down to the ground, my beloved child, and do penance." Another crafty appeal has an oddly contemporary ring. Says fox to cock: "You should...
Under Trilateral guidelines, Third World countries would not be allowed to lure big Western firms away from their home base, thus avoiding what the commission vaguely terms as "retaliatory actions." Some members have suggested that these international rules might also help repair the damaged reputation of the multinationals...