Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...information on Jewell, ranging from his work history to his living habits, must be wondering today if the leads they provided helped keep the investigation focused on a probably innocent man. Still, the FBI is clearly hoping that popular interest in seeing the real bomber punished, and the lure of a $500,000 bounty, will keep those calls and photos coming...
...rules are different here is a slogan Miami has used to lure tourists. Unfortunately, city officials seem to think it applies to them as well. One of the mayor's chief foes, a Cuban-American multimillionaire, once offered to settle their feud with a duel in Central America. A few years ago, when city bureaucrats squabbled over jobs, voodoo dolls with tiny nooses began appearing at City Hall. And Miami officials were caught buying stolen designer clothing for pennies on the dollar in a scandal known as "Hot Suits...
...billboards that say white people, this movie's for you! What the company has done is preview the film for free, on a double bill with its 101 Dalmatians, in an effort to generate good word-of-mouth--the most effective advertising of all. Another lure for audiences is the movie's sound track. Unfortunately for Disney, the record wasn't shipped by early November as planned and arrived in stores only last week. Still not stocked in some major chains, it debuted comparatively weakly at No. 12 on the Billboard...
First Commerce's main product was stock of an outfit called DeVoe-Holbein International, a company that boasted a very interesting technology: one that could essentially extract gold and other valuable minerals from wastewater and seawater. It was a lure reminiscent of the medieval alchemists who claimed to be able to transform base metals into gold, with equally unimpressive results. Dutch authorities raided First Commerce in 1986 and forced it into bankruptcy the following year. Thousands of investors lost money, including many Americans living abroad...
...last week, the wire-strung lights above Mass. Ave. near the Coop and Baskin Robbins glimmered merrily against the November cold. Retailers played Christmas music to lure shoppers into their stores. And, most appalling, the day after Halloween, CVS replaced its bags of orange and black candy corn with bundles of red and green foil-wrapped goodies...