Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mackinac Island conferees agreed that rather than sell the water, a far better tactic would be to use it for their own industrial development, perhaps even to lure back some of the firms that have fled to dryer pastures. As Wisconsin's Dreyfus said, "The only water that leaves the Great Lakes basin should be in cans, mixed with hops, barley and malt." But while such a political position may play well in Milwaukee, it raises a far more serious question in what could become an increasingly shrill national debate: Should any single state, or group of states...
...some of the 17,000 Lagunatics, as the locals call themselves with a fair degree of accuracy, this trompe l'oeil in reverse is a year-round obsession. With the help of 20 full-time backstage professionals, 500 volunteers put on the nightly exhibitions, which lure 300,000 viewers and will gross $1.8 million this year. The festival distributes $100,000 in art scholarships to Laguna High School graduates...
There is cause for a small drop of Joycean malice as well. Dublin's embrace of its prodigal son is both tardy and tentative. The money for the bronze bust did not come from the Irish government but from American Express, to provide an additional lure to the swarms of foreign tourists who annually pay homage to the master. Many Irish natives remain unimpressed. Jerry Davis, a local artist who played the role of Bloom on Bloomsday, says of Joyce: "He was an impudent whacker. I don't really want to be identified with him." Symphorosa Daybell...
Meanwhile, in Washington, Attorney General William French Smith announced the capture and praised the U.S. Marshals Service for an "outstanding investigative effort." The Justice Department had been trying to lure Wilson out of Libya since last year. Twice the rogue agent nearly walked into the trap, then warily drew away. The final-and successful-plot, devised by the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, was deemed "too risky" by the FBI, according to Justice officials. But the unheralded Marshals Service, a 2,100-member arm of the Justice Department, responsible for capturing fugitives, embraced the scheme. "The marshals...
...crew on a forbidding planet 15 years earlier. Now he decides to invade the space platform where Kirk's scientist son and his scientist mother are engaged in good works, creating nothing less than a new Garden of Eden. By capturing Kirk's family, Khan hopes to lure his old enemy into a fatal rescue attempt. This is the kind of situation that makes Kirk feel positively boyish. Lifted out of his psychological lethargy, he manages to can Khan and tie up the loose ends of his life. Why, with Mr. Spock helping him to plot his spiritual...