Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entire $88 billion will be used, in effect, as a "sweetener" in the form of loan, purchase, and price guarantees to lure private industry into the synfuel business. Though more than two dozen small-scale synfuel projects are already either being constructed or operated around the country, many oilmen remain unenthusiastic about starting up plants of their own. The technology for synfuels is expensive and cumbersome, and even though petroleum prices seem to climb higher almost daily, synfuel continues to be one of the costliest and least competitive of all energy sources...
...Costa Rica had evacuated 678 of the 6,250 would-be exiles accepted by eight nations, including the U.S., Castro suddenly canceled the flights. Havana instead proclaimed that all the embassy refugees could leave by way of Mariel, a grimy industrial port 27 miles west of Havana; to lure boats from south Florida's large Cuban exile community to pick up the refugees, it was also announced that any Cuban could leave the island if relatives in the U.S. came to claim...
...There are very few situations where you have to work with people. You're forced to put aside personal feelings and say to yourself, 'I have to work with these eight people.' It's a great, collective feeling," Spencer says as the reflects on the peculiar lure of crew...
...council couldn't legislate away the lure of Cambridge. The universities, the neighborhoods, the ethnic mix, the culture, are all factors in a spiral that may one day prove their own downfall. A recent study by students at the Graduate School of Design, who examined every apartment building in the city, concluded that 45 per cent of the remaining rental housing stock would be converted to condominums this decade unless the government intervened. Fifty-eight per cent of those living in the apartments could not buy the units, mostly for lack of capital. And half that number would...
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will help spur Cambridge's expected economic resurrection. "Cambridge on the letterhead is an asset to a lot of companies," Vickery says, adding that other corporations' executives also teach. And the kind of business that research universities lure--high technology, research and development--are the growth industries of the next 25 years. The state's High Technology Council predicts 70 per cent of new jobs created in Massachusetts in the '80s will be tied to high technology. With inflation making it cheaper to expand into previously developed areas, and with the advantages...