Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strongest argument against setting up a new sub-area of the Core is that it would add one more requirement to the hefty burden students must now juggle. Specifically, several faculty members have said that establishing a Science "C" area would lure students away from the "A" area courses. Even if this is true, though, it should make the Faculty infer that "A" area courses apparently do not have what students are looking for. The better approach would be to include the courses in question within the existing Science...
...Among his classmates was Leopoldo Galtieri, who as head of the military government in 1982 guided Argentina into invading the Falkland Islands. Alfonsin sometimes jokes that because his Jesuit-educated father and uncles had failed to become priests, his mother hoped that he would prove equally resistant to the lure of a military career. "She was right," he says...
...days, it seems only logical--if only from an economic standpoint--that producers literally glutted the screen with "teenage trash films." Occasionally, the script writer will muster up a flimsy plot to legitimize the film's existence. More often the film will do nothing more than what it purports lure sex-hungry teenagers to watch John Travolta and NastassiaKinski sweat and pulsate...
...ahead with its $220 million plan to equip two Jordanian army brigades as a "mobile strike force," despite Israeli and congressional complaints. Indeed, last week it was disclosed that U.S. Special Forces have been secretly training the strike force since 1981. One motive for the military largesse is to lure Jordan into the Middle East peace process...
...test pilots that NASA gets for its guinea pigs are not true leads in the field. When recruiters go to Edwards Air Force Base to lure the flyers into becoming astronauts types who can't even get the respect of the waitress at Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club. When they approach the ringleader, Chuck Yeager, he laughs and calls it work for a lab animal...