Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glut of 1.6 million unsold cars. To get sales rolling again, the industry is now taking two expensive gambles. By the end of this month it will have spent millions in a program of cash rebates - ranging from $200 to $600 on selected models - designed to lure reluctant buyers. For the longer term, Detroit is committing billions to an overdue drive aimed at developing and producing whole new families of cars that will be far lighter, smaller and more economical to operate than practically any of the present models. Says Gerald Meyers, product group vice president at American Motors: "Hell...
With slumping sales volume still plaguing the U.S. securities industry, the American Stock Exchange last week inaugurated a new type of trading that brokers hoped would lure more small investors-and the commissions they pay -back to the market. Inspired by the success of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, first organized in 1973 as an offshoot of the Chicago Board of Trade, the Amex has brought trading in stock futures or "call options" to Wall Street...
WITH ITS FINAL deadline only two weeks away, the Ford administration's ill-conceived draft evasion Clemency Board has taken to the airwaves in a last-ditch effort to lure takers...
...land, agriculture has been so mismanaged that the country will have to import $450 million worth of food this year. To curtail a rural exodus that has already concentrated 78% of his 12 million countrymen in the nation's major cities, Pérez has offered incentives to lure people back to the fields. The government promised to assume past debts incurred by small farmers. It also removed price restraints on most agriculture products and established a $467 million fund to provide low-cost loans for purchases of farm machinery...
...lure the students back into the lecture halls and make them more attentive, Lewis hired Cohen last year. He assigned him first to work on the lectures of a professor of psychology who had been rated "one of the worst" by his classes. Cohen, 26, "infused" jokes into the professor's lecture-on abnormal psychology-and had him begin by saying, "I consider myself particularly qualified to discuss troubled people because I've been both a student and a teacher here at U.S.C." The professor concluded his gag-filled talk by explaining how a student could measure...