Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their additional explanation that this year's initiation got out of hand because of the number of initiates is also unacceptable. If the lure of the Pi is that strong, officers are obliged to have enough people there to keep people from getting hurt. Long time Pi members have wondered why they are being looked at so closely this time. Last week's initiation wasn't that different from other years, they say, adding that any initiates who drank too much or got hit in the mouth during an exuberant pig pile brought it on themselves. While one member went...
According to the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami, the customers were caught in an elaborate telephone trap designed to lure the greedy and the gullible. Of the 66,000, only 60 people got leases, making the "sure thing" a one-in-a-thousand shot. John Aboudara, a San Francisco engineer, and his wife Susan were victims. Says Susan: "We have two young kids, and that money could have been spent much better than giving it to someone we didn't know. It hurts to be dumb...
...lure of prizes helped boost Crimson subscriptions 20 percent, said Crimson Business Manager Margot Singer...
...most important provision of the legislation is also the most controversial. Since it is the hope of a job that draws most aliens across the border, sponsors of the bill sought to diminish that lure by imposing civil and criminal penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegals...
...California and for a few weeks in New York, was a shade more sophisticated than that. But, in essence, that was the offer of Los Angeles Gold and Silver Dealer Alan David Saxon. Would anyone grab at such a flimsy deal? Some 35,000 investors, dazzled by the lure of precious metals as a hedge against renewed inflation, apparently did. Last week they were regretting...