Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voluptuous and sexy," says Christopher Cedergren, an analyst for J.D. Power & Associates. Seductive too: in October GM sold to retail customers 11,443 of the 1989-model Fleetwoods (base price: $30,300) and De Villes ($25,435), 54% more than it sold in the same month in 1987. To lure younger buyers, GM has its Geo line of small cars. Priced from $7,000 to $12,000, the autos are miserly in fuel consumption but splashy in appearance...
...leviathans toward an open lead in the ice pack, while Eskimos, many of them whalers, sawed breathing holes in the 6-in.-thick ice. The effort had its setbacks. The third member of the original trio vanished under the ice and was presumed dead. It took two days to lure Putu and Siku around a shoal. And a "hoverbarge" being towed from Prudhoe Bay bogged down and got stuck...
...Jackson is in a bit of a bind: as the Democratic campaign has foundered, he has been blamed for doing too little and too much. When the original Dukakis game plan was to lure white Reagan Democrats and Southerners back into the fold, Jackson was kept at arm's length. Dukakis planners drew up a list of places they wanted him to visit, pointedly excluding the states Jackson had won during the primaries. Only when George Bush sprinted ahead in the polls did Dukakis' reinstated campaign chief John Sasso ostentatiously seek Jackson...
College students, mostly from elsewhere in the Boston area, were seated at both low and high tables on genuine imitation leather chairs. Brooke stared at the electronic message board, reading the red letters streaming across it. "Tyson accuses Givens of faking a pregnancy to lure him into marriage...
...thing for your opponent to call you liberal; it is another to display your liberalism yourself. Whose constituency is larger remains to be seen, but after tonight it will be impossible for Dukakis to depend on support from those "Reagan Democrats" he hoped to lure back through deliberate vagueness on certain issues. So tonight's appearance can, if Dukakis doesn't exploit it properly, backfire, and may very well determine whether Dukakis will have to kiss his Presidential ambitions good-bye or be able to step back on a path to the White House...