Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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States and communities compete fiercely to lure businesses...
Without the lure of big names, the nightly The MacNeil/Lehrer Report over 270 public television stations consistently provides TV's best discussion of public affairs. Robert MacNeil, once of NBC, is a refugee from network news ("aware of its frequent triviality, its distorting brevity, its obsession with action and movement, its infantile attention span"). His was the radical idea to devote an entire program to one timely subject. He found a partner in Jim Lehrer, "the single most intelligent person I have ever worked with." On fast-breaking news, MacNeil and Lehrer do an impressive job of rounding...
...President's sales tactics were sorely tested as he tried to lure other Republican conservative Congressmen back into the fold. When eight of them were invited to the White House, Reagan was solemn. He passed up his usual jokes and stories but employed what one participant called "a lot of eye contact." Reagan claimed that he had no qualms about the bill and had not been talked into supporting it by aides. He insisted that only about 17% of the revenue in the package would come from tax increases (chiefly on cigarettes, telephone bills and airline tickets). The rest...
...popularity of time shares has increased, so too have the booming new industry's headaches. High-pressure salesmen have flocked in, bringing with them direct-mail promotions that lure unsuspecting customers to distant resorts with promises of expensive-sounding sweepstakes gifts. Then the customers are cajoled into buying time-share condos at high interest rates. Says Democrat Claude Pepper of Florida, whose House Select Committee on Aging has been holding hearings related to abuses in the industry: "Many of these offerings are legitimate. But a high percentage of them turn out to be frauds...
...casinos, entertainment is a lure, a come-on to entice gamblers through the doors; the value of an act is measured by how much it raises the "drop," the total volume of bets on the gaming floors. Five years ago, even a fee of $100,000 or more a week seemed a bargain if a star actually pulled customers onto the gaming floors. Just before his death in 1977, Elvis Presley was paid about $125,000 a week by the Las Vegas Hilton, for example, and, in the way salaries are measured, he was worth every penny. "Elvis not only...