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Word: lures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided to reduce production drastically, scuttling 1,500 jobs over the next year. But the loss was a "cloud with a silver lining of great depth," insists Mayor Winfield Moses, who helped launch a spirited campaign to diversify the city's economy, save and expand existing businesses and lure new industry. Moses created the city's first economic development department. Taking advantage of publicity about the flood, the department has begun inviting companies to locate in "the city that saved itself." Bids are soon to be let on a $24 million convention center. The local Chamber of Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales off Ten Cities | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...Harvard, fan support is conspicuously absent. Even the brand new Briggs Athletic Center can't lure more than 500 supporters to a game. The cagers aren't a UCLA team, but they aren't winless either, and the hard-fighting Crimson have only been out of a game three times. Coach Frank McLaughlin's team mounted a comeback to nip brother Tom McLaughlin's UMass squad, 45-44, in Amherst earlier this season...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Keeping the Faith | 1/26/1983 | See Source »

...wouldn't get into the water because it was always cold," she recalls. "They had to lure me into the water with those flotation eggs and they made the swim with them." Calvert persisted and eventually passed the beginners' test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shelby Calvert | 1/26/1983 | See Source »

...DeKalb Bank there, which dangled 25% interest and an E.T. doll, took in $7 million the first day, an amount that increased the bank's total deposits by 17%. Elsewhere, rates have been more realistic, generally ranging from 9% to 11%. But money has hardly been the only lure. Besides paying 10% interest, the Union Warren Savings Bank in Boston has handed out 4,700 16-piece dinnerware sets (retail value: $65) to customers opening money-market accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Brawl in Banking | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

Martco is one of the first firms to qualify for state assistance under the Louisiana Enterprise Zone Act of 1981, a package of tax-relief measures designed to lure investment to depressed rural and urban areas. Martco and the seven other companies approved so far are expected to generate some 1,200 jobs in exchange for $4 million in state tax breaks over the next five years. Says Governor David Treen: "We think the returns far outstrip what we give up in revenues." Indeed, while Congress has been sitting on President Reagan's federal enterprise zone proposal, made last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Jobs | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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