Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the go-go days of the early 1980s, when the market seemed unlimited, the lure of making a fast fortune enticed hordes of companies and entrepreneurs into the industry. The bruising competition that resulted has turned into a battle for survival. Future Computing, a Dallas-based market research firm, says that in the past two years the number of personal computer manufacturers has shriveled from more than 200 to about 150. Some companies, including Mattel and Timex, have simply dropped their home computer lines, but several smaller firms like Gavilan Computer of Campbell, Calif., and Beehive International of Salt...
Although a Swiss mathematical physicist turned down a rare joint tenure position with the Physics Department earlier this year, professors said that the appointment of Taubes is unrelated to their ongoing attempt to lure a combined specialist...
...however, most of the scholars responded to the lure of Darwin, insisting that creatures die out because they are no longer fit to survive and must give way to the supremacy of the new. That argument seemed to apply particularly well to the dinosaurs, which were denigrated as being too big, too slow, too pea-brained and too cold-blooded for their own good...
...Harvard, students will have to pick from among nine different companies which hope to lure customers away from AT&T Customers can choose a company...
Parker insists that his fellow converts are making no effort to lure other Episcopalians toward Rome. "I love the Episcopal Church," he says. "I have no animosity toward it. It is where I first learned the Catholic religion...