Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive vice president of the association, anticipates a doubling during the next two years of such financial transactions, which might include, for example, Saudi Arabia paying for U.S. refinery equipment with offshore dollars. Says he: "We are gearing up for this expansion." All told, the relaxed regulations should lure back some $200 billion of the roughly $600 billion U.S. banks have booked in their offshore branches...
...rabbi's wife uses TV to lure dropouts back to the fold
Jungreis, 45, bills herself as "the Rebbetzin" (Rabbi's Wife) or "the Jewish Soul on Fire." Others call her "the Jewish Billy Graham," but unlike the Baptist evangelist, she does not seek converts from other religions. Her sole mission is to lure, cajole or otherwise summon secularized Jews back to their faith...
...350th birthday. Things are a little less academic this time around--more parades, fireworks and historical reenactments, and fewer speeches. And there's another difference. Harvard plays little part in the proceedings. Though the parade reviewing stand attracts Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, it can't lure Derek Bok. And every city politician duly notes that Walter Milne. MIT's community relations director, walks the entire parade route, his smile a little forced, perhaps, but there nonetheless...
Shocked by the defections, party leaders set out to lure back workers who had apparently recoiled from the way the Communists had torpedoed Mitterrand's 1978 attempt at a Socialist-Communist alliance. Even in this election, Marchais had appeared to direct the Communists' first-round campaign as much against Mitterrand-as "an obstacle to change"-as against Giscard. According to some analysts, the Communists are now supporting Mitterrand in the hope of ultimately sinking...