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Word: lures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program is not expected to lure many law students away from the high-paying summer jobs they can get coming from a top school. It is not certain that all 50 spots will be taken...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Law School OK's Loans For Low-Paid Students | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...greatly tougher security measures as either impractical or likely to hand the I.R.A. new propaganda weapons. Instead, he promised a modest redeployment of the 10,000 British troops in Northern Ireland, with more undercover antiterrorist patrols by police and the elite Special Air Service. In an attempt to lure the Unionists back into the Assembly, Prior also invited four of Northern Ireland's political parties to talks on security. Meanwhile, in a radio interview, the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, Garret Fitzgerald, a Catholic, seemed close to tears as he denounced the murders at the Elim church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Blasphemy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...lure of guest suites for interesting visitors has prompted Mather House to refurbish its one suite this fall. "It definitely won't look like one of the students' rooms," says Anne Aubrey, assistant to the masters...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Harvard's House Guests | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

...undertaking emergency measures. One tactic: leaving roasted pork chops and goat meat on the mountain slopes in hopes that the pandas will turn from their normal vegetarian diet. Explained Schaller: "They'll eat meat if they can get it easily." The scientists are also using meat to lure pandas to lower-lying regions where other types of bamboo may be available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Battling a Bamboo Crisis | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

Which places people like Pickett in a predicament. While he says firmly. "In no way will Harvard or Yale do anything to commercialize it, they just want to make it special," it's precisely the absence of some lure that threatens to leave Yale bowl seats vacant and the specially designed tickets with the commemorative logo and poem untorn

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The making of the 100th Game | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

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