Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kerry campaign officials are massaging the state's liberal network in its post-Labor Day blitz, while Weld is using frequent media splashes to lure independent and moderate voters across party lines...
Kerry campaign officials are massaging the state's liberal network in its post-Labor Day blitz, while Weld is using frequent media splashes to lure independent and moderate voters across party lines...
...suite (No. 205) at Washington's Jefferson Hotel where she and Morris supposedly met, and Gooding plotted to take pictures. (A photographer would shoot stills while Gooding operated a video camera). Rowlands came up with the idea of bringing along her Yorkshire terrier, Bijou, to make sure she could lure Morris onto the balcony...
...traditions will vanish, or at least change beyond recognition. In many African nations, minority tribes are being culturally assimilated--if not physically wiped out--by the ruling majority; in others, rural villagers are migrating to the melting pots of the cities. Even those who stay behind are finding the lure of Western music, culture and clothing irresistible. Nobody believes the trend can be stopped, or that it is necessarily a bad thing--for example, in the case of female circumcision. But scientists do want to document Africa's existing cultures before it's too late...
...Hollywood will keep trying to lure families with kid-oriented films. When pictures like Babe and Home Alone work, they can be wildly profitable. Fox executive Tom Sherak points out that only two of the 20 top-grossing movies of all time were R-rated. Often children's pictures are cheaper than other films, and they have the potential to generate huge sales in home video and merchandise. "You keep mining that category of films," Sherak says. "When you hit, you're going to hit really big." And it gives politicians a chance to go to the movies...