Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manipulated by the facile hands of a master magician: James ("the Amazing") Randi, 59, conjurer, showman, crusader and America's most implacable foe of flummery. The props and the techniques are those used by the so-called psychic surgeons of the Philippines, who promise miraculous, painless, lifesaving surgery to lure desperately ill people to their clinics. But what the sufferers get is sleight of hand, not surgery, and Randi's goal is to spread that message. "These people go to the Philippines," he explains, "they spend their money, and they return home, in most cases...
...strengthen the lure of coming to Cambridge, over the years, Harvard has baited its hook with a series of benefits designed to ensure that professors maximize their opportunities to use the extensive facilities the University has to offer...
...line from getting snarled. Daiwa of Garden Grove, Calif., sells a $100 spinning reel with a screen that tells how far the line is cast and how fast it is reeled in. The $695 Cannon Digi-Troll, sold by Michigan-based S & K Products, not only drops a trolling lure to a measured depth but can also be programmed to raise or lower it automatically until it finds the fish...
...drugs themselves: violent crime. Laws to stop the supply do not prevent anyone who really wants cocaine or heroin from getting ( it. But they do permit the sellers to charge sky-high prices as a kind of risk premium. The high prices, in turn, produce enormous profits that irresistibly lure vicious gangs, who are taking over large areas of cities. The gangs employ armies of pushers who spread the very plague the drug laws are supposed to combat. Says Milton Friedman, guru of free-market economists and a Nobel prizewinner: "The harm that is done by drugs is predominantly caused...
...important early proponent of Star Wars was Robert McFarlane; initially, the scheme was part of McFarlane's elaborate covert operation to lure the Soviets -- and the President himself -- into an arms-control deal...