Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Public transportation is in hot demand again, but today no one wants to pick up the tab. A decade ago, to lure people back to mass transit, city and state officials made the mistake of holding fares to unrealistically low levels. From 1970 to 1975, while inflation was rising nearly 40%, fares were not increased at all in many cities; in some, they actually decreased. Mass transit was the closest thing to a free ride...
...America is that violence and stealing are breeding almost as fast in the suburbs as in the inner city. As more and more husbands and wives hold down jobs, their unoccupied homes make tempting daytime targets for burglars. The high price of silverware and gold jewelry adds to the lure. The thieves are often the unattended sons of working couples who, say police, steal to keep up with the rising cost of marijuana. Arrests for violent crimes in the suburbs climbed...
...blends elements of racial identity, assimilation and Caribbean folklore with an old-fashioned lady-and-the-truck-driver romance. Can sophisticated Jadine and her black diamond in the rough make it, even after he has a haircut and borrows a Hickey Freeman suit? Or will Ryk, a rich somebody, lure her back to Paris by sending her a sealskin coat she cannot wear in the tropics...
...promotion, put together by a Melbourne rock impresario and bankrolled by a cigarette company, cost some $2 million to stage. No effort was spared to lure the two top tennis players out of their tax shelters. Sydney's Hordern Pavillion, normally a venue for pop concerts and agricultural shows, was transformed into a tennis stadium for the first two matches. Seats ranging from $36 to $3,600 (for courtside boxes) were laid out behind a row of dainty lemon dahlias. Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium was transformed even further for the final match. Kooyong is Australia's Wimbledon...
Satie suffers most. His featherweight Parade owes its place in theatrical history largely to Picasso's sets and costumes. The story of carnival players trying to lure a crowd into their act is trampled by the arrival of weary soldiers from the front, still wearing gas masks. Nor is there any support from Gray Veredon's pallid, inert choreography. (Leonide Massine created the original dances.) As Harlequin, Gary Chryst works hard, but his role is never allowed to gain momentum...