Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, though, more and more people are eating more and more of their meals at fast-food restaurants. Savvy commercial campaigns--the industry spends $2 billion a year on advertising and promotions--and the lure of a quick, convenient repast have made the restaurants so popular that fast-food restaurants have become an American institution...
...investment firm of Smith Barney. Says he: "Our culture has put such value on tax breaks that even the savviest investors wonder whether they should dump their best-performing stocks." Wall Streeters hope that any widespread selling urge on the part of small investors will be offset by the lure of a potentially bigger bull market ahead. In fact, some advisers are telling investors to sell their stocks to get the capital-gains deduc- tion and then buy the shares back again...
...When we were on the hunger strike and not leaving the house because we were afraid of being grabbed on the street and forcibly hospitalized, the car was suddenly found. The state traffic police kept calling us to come for it. We ignored them. But at last, unable to lure us out of the house with the prospect of getting our car back, they simply broke down the door and took us by force to separate hospitals...
...reform is already stirring apprehension. The lifetime-employment system, for example, allowed children to inherit their parents' jobs, a practice that will eventually end. Some planners are worried that the new system will lure workers in search of more lucrative jobs to already crowded cities. They also fear that some less desirable positions may go unfilled. Says a Chinese official: "We must be very careful about labor mobility. Permanent employment is one of the last bastions of our ideology...
...margaritas, for driving with the top down and perpetual pursuit of youth. The city's Balboa Park is full of museums, but at least one of them, the San Diego Museum of Art, is not above erecting a giant outdoor cutout of the Cat in the Hat to lure spectators to an exhibition of the drawings of Dr. Seuss. This, then, is not the sort of place where a culture vulture might expect to find one of the nation's leading regional repertory companies. And he wouldn't -- he would find...