Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is more behind the quick acceptances than a sense of security and the lure of a free candlelit lunch. In San Francisco, there are far more single men than single women, and eating with the TDOs gives a young woman the opportunity to size up a variety of young, affluent eligibles. "Here I was, one of two girls surrounded by some 20 guys, and all of them good-looking," burbles Nancy Noren, 27, one of the TDOs' recent guests. "I mean, like...
...Kraus plan is supposed to be traversed by "merit-based grants," Harvard's euphemism for monetary bait to lure "bright" students away from other graduate schools. Grants based on merit, awarded by departmental Faculty, inflict an inherent bias on our liberal academic community--a "bright" student might turn out to be one who parrots his academic sponsor's line. The College long ago eliminated this auctioning for students: the GSAS should follow suit...
...colors so vivid that they have inspired Haitians to become a nation of artists. There are more mundane attractions. Five days in a comfortable Port-au-Prince hotel can cost as little as $125, including breakfasts and dinners-far less than in the more familiar Caribbean isles. Another lure is the quick divorce; Haitian courts issue divorce decrees in less than 48 hours...
...clip of 60,000 or 70,000 per year. Sales in 1971 dipped to 811,000 per week, and 1972 returns showed a further decrease. Rumors naturally followed that Match would be snuffed out. Last month Founder and Publisher Jean Prouvost, still active at 87, took steps to lure readers back...
...tibia."* Besides, there is the legendary ambience of après-ski, which has become something of a hedonistic cliche but keeps attracting people with its roaring hearth fires and hot spiced wine in the lodges, its hard rock and casual flirtation in the bars. Still another lure: some skiers insist that ultraviolet rays from the sun, relatively unfiltered in the rarefied mountain air, have an aphrodisiac effect -an assertion that doctors deny...