Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capital city, we watched agents for the Preservation of Virtue and Elimination of Vice enforce an endless list of edicts and absurdities at gunpoint, with rifle butts, with the backs of their hands. Women are forbidden to wear high heels or white socks because they are considered a sexual lure. Music is banned: cassettes are often snatched out of cars, the tapes stripped out and hung on signs as a warning. Kites may not be flown, and most forms of public entertainment, like movies, are not permitted...
Police say the two men tried to lure Jeffrey into having sex with them in exchange for a bicycle and money. The boy refused, but police say Jaynes suffocated...
...Pete Wilson of California, and Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey were hailed as the future saviors of the Republican Party. The "3 W's" of moderate Republicanism-fiscally conservative (tax and spending cuts) and socially liberal (pro-choice, pro-gay rights)-seemed to offer the perfect combination to lure the Republican Party back to the center from its Buchananite extremes. With their message of keeping the government out of the pocketbook and the bedroom, they could sell the all-important swing voters of the '90s-white middle- and upper-middle class suburbanites-the original of the Republican-Lite itch...
...like the old days," laments Rand Morrison, senior broadcast producer on Public Eye and a 48 Hours veteran. "Now everyone's been on TV. It's not a lure. You'll call someone, and they'll say, 'You're the fifth person who's called me.' There's an astonishing level of sophistication too. People are in on the mechanism. They're like, 'Are you picking me up [for the show in a limo]?'" Winning a guest, adds senior editorial producer Nancy Duffy, "ultimately boils down to that person's sense of nostalgia, who they've watched...
SIHL's dazzling performance is one lure for investors, but an even bigger one is the company's reputation for guanxi, or political connections. They emanate from SIHL's parent, known as SIIC, or the Shanghai Industrial Investment (Holdings) Co., with interests in more than 200 businesses around the world. SIIC is owned by the Shanghai city government. Not to be ignored is the fact that China's State President, Jiang Zemin, is a former mayor of Shanghai. "The name of the game in China is relationships," explains Kent Rossiter, a senior investment analyst at Nikko Securities Co. (Asia). "Shanghai...