Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale's $20,000. Harvard is second in faculty "quality," since it pays a median salary of $27,200, while the California Institute of Technology is third, with $25,700. No. 1 is the University of Alaska, which pays top intellectual dollar, an average of $27,800, to lure academics to far-off Fairbanks...
...Israelis saw it, the Saunders mission was a high-pressure effort to lure Jordan and the Palestinians into the negotiations by publicly siding with the Arab interpretation of the Camp David accords. Israeli officials sharply criticized Saunders for endorsing Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and East Jerusalem, though this has been American policy for more than a decade. Most of all, the Israelis seemed to resent the timing of the Saunders trip, coming as it did while the Washington peace talks were in progress and while Begin was busy preparing his people and his parliament to support a settlement...
Goldberger is the most recent, but by no means the only scientist to succumb to the lure of the brainy powerhouse in Pasadena. In fact, Caltech was fashioned from a vocational school into an exclusive West Coast scientific preserve during the early 1900s by deep-thinking migrants from back East. Most notable among them: Chemist Arthur Noyes, a former acting president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who became the first academic vice president of Caltech; University of Chicago Experimental Physicist Robert Millikan, whose prestige attracted many to the young school; and Astronomer and Cosmologist George Ellery Hale, the school...
...many as 30 million new passengers next year, on top of the 280 million (a 40 million annual gain) they are expected to carry in 1978. Thus the lines have a problem: while they must avoid further strains on their hard-pressed facilities, they must also continue to lure new customers...
...eight novels, ten children's books, four memoirs and scores of short stories. All of them are suffused with, in the Nobel committee's memorable phrase, "the author's apparently inexhaustible psychological fantasy ... of manias and superstitions, fanatical hopes and dreams, the figments of terror, the lure of lust or power...