Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many communities the old ritual of playing outdoors after school has largely disappeared. In urban families in which both parents work, youngsters are often told to stay safely indoors. Then, too, there is the lure of computer games and television. Youngsters spend on average 24 hours a week before the flickering tube, all too frequently with fattening snack readily at hand. Some children may simply be sprouts of couch-potato parents, but even when elders set a sprightly example, it is not always enough. Aerobics Advocate Cooper, who skis and runs, most often finds his 16-year-old son Tyler...
...SwedishAmerican Hospital in Rockford, Ill., is offering a clever gimmick to lure obstetrics customers: Dial-A-Dad, a service in which beepers are given to expectant fathers so they can be paged within a 30-mile radius when mothers go into labor...
MOST RIVETING QUESTION Faced with revised tax laws that cut deductions for business meals to 80%, restaurateurs are wondering if any dish is tempting enough to lure big spenders who show sudden loss of appetite...
...time of that nadir, Mancuso had a restocking process well under way. Months earlier, Mancuso's first important moves had been to hire Tanen and lure Producer John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) over to Paramount from Universal. Hughes' first feature for Paramount, Pretty in Pink, was released in February and has subsequently grossed $40 million. Hughes followed that up in June with Ferris Buehler's Day Off, which has since brought in $70 million...
...Decepticon Trypticon (about $56) is a gray, green and purple animated dinosaur that turns -- with some flips, tucks and fast snaps -- into an entire city. Transformers (a mainstay of Toy & Hobby World's Toy Hit Parade) have lots of modern dash, but electric trains still have romance enough to lure any kid away from a video game. Purists note that Lionel may not be all it once was, but the H-O gauge lines of Marklin and Roco, Lima and Liliput, chug as reliably as ever, and the large-scale LGBs, made in West Germany, could be the grandest...