Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officially declared it "Orange Monday" in honor of the Denver Broncos' team colors. With ABC Monday Night Football scheduled to show the Broncos taking on the visiting Green Bay Packers and with gorgeous Indian-summer weather prevailing throughout the Rockies, civic boosters hoped the national exposure would lure conventioneers, new business, tourists and-who knows?-maybe even a long-awaited major league baseball franchise for Colorado...
...addition, winning the Software Institute sweepstakes could help lure faculty members to the host schools, which would be propelled to the forefront of the newly emerging field...
...Mafia resulted in a sensational series of shootings and stabbings on the streets of Palermo in the mid-1950s. The killings marked a sinister turning point in the history of the honored association: henceforth no code of honor or oath of loyalty would prove stronger than the lure of incalculable profits in the drug trade...
Mondale's aides are counting heavily on the two TV debates with Reagan, which were firmly scheduled last week, to give their champion an opportunity to cut into the President's lead (see box). They claim to see evidence in private surveys that Mondale is starting to lure wavering Democrats back to his cause. At the moment, published national polls show the exact opposite, but it would not be surprising if Mondale's poll standings improve a bit, if only because they are scraping the rock-bottom minimum level of support that past election results suggest...
Bass ran off and joined the Army for four years, but his mother persisted in her efforts to lure him back. Says Jackson: "He has letters from her in which she says she loves him like no other girl." Last week in Charlotte, - Tenn., the attorney general's office brought charges of felonious criminal incest against Mrs. Bass, who pleaded innocent. If convicted, she could face up to 21 years in jail. Danny now says that all he wants is a new life and a new wife. One closer...