Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rolls around, don't count on hearing anybody whose name is cited now. Both Trudeau and Tomlin have turned down the honor in the past; last year, Dangerfield was a speaker of last resort. This year's committee may well exhaust its 19-person list before it manages to lure some notable, or near-notable, to a Cambridge spring. The post carries no pay or honorarium, and the selection committee may eventually have to call on some personal connections to draw its candidate...
...prospect of a thrilling battle between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys proved a lure to many students. For others, though, the thought of oncoming exams dampened their football fever...
...most persuasive lure to prospective members is now and has always been the low dues for recent graduates. For the first four years after college, the fee is only $72 per year. Then it goes up rapidly, levelling off at $360 per year for those out of college ten years or more...
...budget's 3,000 spending programs?from the beekeepers' indemnity fund to the space shuttle?has its defenders in Congress, and even the most seemingly inconsequential of cutbacks will inspire protests. OMB is recommending, for example, that the U.S. Travel Service, set up under John Kennedy to lure foreign tourists, be scrapped completely. The saving would be only $14 million, and the travel industry is already lobbying against the cut. The budget bashers have also cut 1,100 men from a Justice Department request for 14,000 border-patrol officers to intercept illegal immigrants from Mexico. Organized labor is expected...
...instructive irony that the country that was for so long at the bottom of the heap in job creation is now so close to the top. The country is Ireland; its method of generating employment is to lure private investment, mostly from the U.S.; and its Pied Piper for industry is a former Gaelic football and hurling player, Michael Killeen. He is a man of Donegal, that scenic but tragic county in Ireland's west that sent so many of its youth to America (including four of Killeen's uncles and aunts) because they could not find work...