Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat by Hassan. "This man disturbs me," the King frequently said of Ben Barka. As chief of national security, Interior Minister Oufkir launched "Operation Ben Barka"-at first to keep track of the leftist dissident, but then to murder him. Working with French intelligence agents, Oufkir was able to lure Ben Barka from Geneva to Paris on a plausible but phony pretext: that Director Georges Franju (Head Against the Walls, Red Nights) wanted to make a film documentary about decolonization. Ben Barka was to meet Franju for lunch at the Brasserie Lipp when he was accosted by the two agents...
Through tax incentives and guarantees, South Korea and Taiwan have encouraged local investors to support labor-intensive industries that earn foreign exchange. Two years ago, the lure of higher income prompted Han Chang Soo to quit a secure $120-a-month job with the Korean tax department. He raised $70,000, rented a small plant in Seoul, hired 20 workers, bought some used machinery and began manufacturing large-headed roofing nails; this year his sales-mostly exports to the U.S. -will reach...
...Portuguese wine to lubricate last week's festivities. Mobutu has been told by the International Monetary Fund to change his ways if he wants $170 million in new loans, and in an anniversary speech last week, he did promise reform, including committees to supervise spending, and compensation to lure back skilled expatriates...
...front four are so aggressive, in fact, that it sometimes works to their disadvantage. Offensive plays that capitalize on a hard defensive rush have gained yardage against the Steelers this year. Screen passes, for example, are designed to lure pass rushers toward the quarterback, who then dumps the ball to a runner waiting a few yards downfield...
Bloomingdale's has been trying to snare customers in new ways almost from the day in 1872 when the store was founded by the brothers Bloomingdale?Lyman and Joseph. As an early lure, the store touted a "sky carriage," which was simply a trip in an elevator; nonetheless, Bloomingdale's was the first department store in New York to install that contraption...