Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spielberg has formidable competition for the attention of moviegoers this summer. The producers of Annie have engineered a powerful media blitz to herald their lavish if lead-souled musical. Tron, a futuristic melodrama set inside a video game, hopes to lure the addicts of the arcades back to moviehouses. New versions of Rocky, Grease, Star Trek and The Thing will tempt old adherents. The Road Warrior and Blade Runner will offer up eye-catching punk-rock apocalypses. Robin Williams will attempt to enter The World According to Garp. Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen have new movies, and Burt Reynolds...
...decision between academics and a total commitment to athletics; although wrenching, ultimately produced a successful professional life, both in sports and the Foreign Service, Dover explains, Eleven years later, he says he still enjoys the lure of competition...
Clyde Graeber, one of the city's five commissioners, concocted the plan as a way to lure law-abiding visitors to Leavenworth. A local businessman has offered to donate ten acres of land, and town officials are busily devising schemes to raise funds to build the library. The former President has not been consulted, but the Chicago Sun Times, begging his pardon, is keen on the idea. Editorialized the paper: "You know, we had a feeling he'd make it there some...
Junior faculty, however, said the financial problems with teaching computer science at Harvard involve more than the lure of working for private companies. Unlike other uni- versities. Harvard pays junior faculty in all departments the same salary despite higher industrial demands for experts in areas such as engineering and computers
...means clear twelve years ago, when Armani had to be cajoled away from his steady $40,000-a-year job designing men's wear for Nino Cerruti. It took the considerable persuasive powers of Sergio Galeotti, then 25 and a draftsman in a leading Milan architectural firm, to lure Armani from the kind of early middle-aged complacency he was slipping into. Armani, the second of three children of a transport-company manager in Piacenza, 40 miles southeast of Milan, grew up during World War II and remembers waking up screaming from nightmares about air raids. A childhood like...