Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...code name is given each caller, and an elaborate payoff system involving a clandestine rendezvous is used to reward the anonymous informant. The cloak-and-dagger atmosphere is apparently part of the program's lure. Said the program head: "People are interested in that type of thing-code names, secret drops. There's a little...
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (81). To see a splendid revival of the finest play ever written by a U.S. dramatist ought to be a sufficient lure, in and of itself. O'Neill painted an enduring portrait of his own tragic family history, using the primary colors of love, anger and compassion. As the mother, Geraldine Fitzgerald gives a performance that is etched in the bloodlines of life...
...class, it costs more to fly one way from New York to Paris ($298) than to Honolulu ($224), even though Honolulu is 1,200 miles farther away. Most businessmen and many tourists are unfairly stuck with those basic economy fares, which cover trips of 14 days or less. To lure more vacationers into their planes, the airlines have come up with a confusing welter of special prices (see box, page 64). All of them are aimed at alleviating the industry's toughest problem; empty seats...
...might call for the premature celebrators to come up with pasta all over their faces, but, when the election results came in last week, the M.S.I.'s self-confidence proved to be justified. In Sicily, Rome and 157 other cities, a determined get-out-the-vote campaign helped lure more than 96% of the eligible voters to the polls. The neo-Fascists captured 13.9% of the vote, nearly double what they received in the last provincial and municipal elections, and the largest gain made by any party since Italy resumed voting after World...
...cutting started two weeks ago when the Belgian government ordered its state-controlled Sabena airlines to adopt a new "student fare" of $220 round trip between New York and Brussels. The action, an ingenious ploy to lure passengers to Sabena, has brought price competition to the cartelized International Air Transport Association. Like all members of IATA, Sabena is not normally permitted to raise or lower fares unilaterally-except in response to government orders. The rules also permit other airlines that fly the same routes to adopt similar prices in order to compete. Pan Am, the only U.S. carrier with direct...