Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warned. "I have no magic wand." He has shuffled his finance and economic ministers. He has raised interest rates on savings and hiked taxes on most imports. He has reassessed Sadat's policy of al infitah (the opening), under which the country has attempted to lure foreign investors. Launched in the mid-1970s, al infitah produced some investment in luxury hotels and soft-drink plants, but did little to expand Egypt's industrial base...
Many professors cite the fact that high salaries in the high-technology industries lure college graduates away from academic life and into the job market as a main reason for the shortage of teaching fellows...
Last week the U.S. Treasury Department unveiled a new, potentially higher-yielding certificate designed to help lure savers back to bonds. The new bonds, offered in denominations of $50 or more, will have ten-year maturities and pay interest at a floating rate with a floor that guarantees investors a minimum of 7.5% annually if held for at least five years. Higher rates will be paid if the yields on the Government's Treasury bonds and notes rise during the period. Though savers will not know for at least five years just how much more than 7.5% annually they...
...Broccoli, who has produced or co-produced all but one of the previous Bonds. Never Say Never Again, based on the original story for Thunderball, is produced by Jack Schwartzman, a lawyer and movie executive who acquired the rights after a complicated set of maneuvers. Schwartzman also managed to lure Connery, now 52, back into Bondage...
Home from a four-day trip to Texas A&M University, where officials are hoping to lure him away from Harvard, Higgins Professor of Chemistry Sheldon Glashow said yesterday that he found the institution "very impressive and very upwardly mobile." But he added, "I certainly don't have any plans to leave Harvard for the moment...