Word: lures
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Force and NASA and, with the unexpected new demand for such launchers, would like to reverse their role. They would rent Government launching facilities and use their own rockets to orbit commercial satellites. The potential benefit: providing competition that would force lower launch prices and, in turn, lure more private business...
...French from launch pads in French Guiana. Arianespace has raised its prices by nearly one-third, to $35 million a launch, and has at least 29 orders on its books, worth some $1.2 billion. But the consortium has only eight slots open through 1988, so its - ability to lure business from the U.S. is limited...
British Airways, meanwhile, has taken a different tack to lure customers back to the skies. The company last week unveiled an unusual $8 million sweepstakes, in which it will give away all 5,200 seats on its June 10 flights between 15 U.S. cities and London. People who want to take one of those trips can send in an entry now, and the winners will be drawn on May 29. Customers who had booked seats for June 10 before the contest was announced are automatic winners. In addition, passengers on all British Airways flights this summer will be eligible...
HARVARD HIRED SOUTHERN at a time when Afro-American Studies--instituted in the wake of militant student demands during the late 1960s--was suffering from plummeting student interest and the University's admitted inability to lure scholars to bolster the field...
...lure worked. After decades of silence, Leitch arranged to meet a reader named Truda, in Liverpool: "Recognition was total, instantaneous. Her expression revealed a moment of fear so acute it was like a pain." Like many other adopted children, her son had his own fears. Were his own flaws environmental, or were they "symbolic perhaps of a greater human carelessness which would forever tie me to my mother's defection...