Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention center, recently withdrew from the project, after spending $5,500,000. Long Beach officials are now negotiating with a possible replacement, McCulloch Oil Corp., a company with some experience in British hand-me-downs. Two years ago McCulloch bought London Bridge and is reconstructing it as a tourist lure for its new town, Lake Havasu City, on the east bank of the Colorado River. "I still think the project is a good idea," says Long Beach City Manager John Mansell. "There are few births that don't give a little trouble...
...system itself. Working for the Government ordinarily offers great job security, but this attraction has been somewhat dimmed by large cutbacks in employment in the Defense Department and NASA. Government employees can eat 750 lunches in federal cafeterias, take yearly 26-day vacations after 15 years and-the biggest lure of all-retire on full pensions as early as age 55, if they have put in 30 years...
...Lure for Shoppers. The first big U.S. city to try banning the auto was New York. As part of the city's observance of Earth Day last April, Mayor John Lindsay decreed that portions of Fifth Avenue and 14th Street be closed to vehicular traffic for the day. The idea was so popular that Fifth Avenue was closed on four successive Saturdays in July. Two weeks ago the ban was extended to eight streets, which will be closed this month or in September...
Buddhists and Bikinis. The advent of Tokyo's hodosha tengoku ("pedestrians' paradise") touched off a fierce sales battle to lure customers into shops. One store on the Ginza offered to decorate the street with 3,000 potted petunias. Another used bikini-clad girls to dispense 10,000 servings of ice cream to passersby. While the streets were enlivened by antiwar protesters, beggars and robed Buddhist monks, news cameramen recorded the scene from helicopters whirring about in the suddenly clear blue skies. At street level, concentrations of lethal carbon monoxide dropped from 10.5 parts per million...
...money to stay alive. This could mean a job training program, or a placement service, or simply making more jobs available to street freaks. Who should have to pay for such programs? It seems unfair to place the burden on Cambridge taxpayers or the City Council. They did not lure young people to Cambridge and try to convince them of what a groovy place it is. Two sectors did that, directly or indirectly. They are the University, (which should have enough money to fund projects of such crucial local importance and who should at least be decent enough...