Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Traffic on Hawaiian Air Lines and Aloha Airlines, which carry sightseers between the islands, is down 10% this year. The two carriers have launched sweepstakes with prizes like new cars to lure local residents into seats vacated by tourists. Inter-Island Resorts, the oldest hotel chain in Hawaii, lost $1.25 million in the third quarter, compared with a profit of $769,000 during the same period last year. On the island of Maui, which had been developing rapidly, business is off 3.4%. The hotel occupancy rate in October was only...
...promise of close meets can't lure you to Blodgett to see the aquawomen, then maybe some of the individuals on the team who have registered outstanding performances can. Take freshman Jeanne Floyd for example. A native of Portola Valley, Calif., Floyd powered her way to three first-place finishes last week against Maine in the 100-, 200-, and 500-yd. freestyles--her three wins qualifying her for the Eastern Seaboard Championships in March...
Poussaint also said the economic lure of private practice often discourages minorities from seeking faculty positions. "Minority students usually incur large debts through the course of their education--it is a lot easier to pay these off through a practice...
Even if freshmen arrive here determined to resist the lure of Harvard-think, they often find themselves giving in. Paul Manina "didn't go to all of that pep-rally stuff;" he's just not the type. But by the time the Yale game rolled around, "you feel some sort of weird school spirit whether you want to or not." With-Yalies around he "felt obligated to defend the school down the line, meaning every word...
...offensive quasi-Oriental song and dance into their show? "Singapore Sue" (She's so soft and gentle/She's my favorite Oriental) plays on thirties fantasies about sinister Orientals: the pantomime that accompanies the song portrays a wicked slant-eyed madam shanghaiing girls to work in her brothel, where they lure Occidental sailors to their doom. The Depression was racist as well as naive, in the view Dames at Sea presents, and the former attribute is not particularly laughable. After the Asian-American Association protested a similarly offensive stereotype in last spring's Pudding Show, it is astonishing that the Hasty...