Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James is right that the Hall of Fame, like the Miss America Pageant or the Mount Rushmore sculptures, was essentially a Chamber of Commerce inspiration to lure tourists. But when the Hall opened in 1939, it became a secular shrine, the Lourdes of baseball. It still is. The place evokes a simpler time of grace and grit and innocence, when players didn't seem so greedy or owners so stupid and when both sides apparently realized that the franchise they held was on loan from the fans who had invested so much of themselves in it. This vision is partly...
...pockets where they hope their wallets still are and maybe run a pre-emptive check on their dentures, just to make sure. Are automobile dealers really deciding to treat customers like decent, autonomous human beings, or is this just another ruse -- call it the integrity scam -- to lure suckers back into the showrooms...
...said, though, that except for between $400,000 to $800,000, the deficit seems to be caused by spend- ing on some of Carnesale's "unmet priorities,"such as funding research opportunities for juniorfaculties and upping salary increases to lure newprofessors...
...playing the spy, he knows his part. But he doesn't know how to act like a good husband, or even a jealous one. When a sleazy salesman (Bill Paxton) brags that Helen is his mistress, Harry uses all his spy tricks to catch her in the act -- or lure her into it. The man who has no time to be with his wife does have time to prey on her, especially in the two- way mirror scene...
...selling bonds. A hefty chunk of this sum comes from foreigners, and they were not born yesterday. Seeing the dollar in decline, they sense that our plan is to pay them back with devalued money. So they stop buying our bonds, and the only way we can lure them back is with higher interest rates that affect everyone. Thus, thanks to the falling dollar and continuing huge budget deficits, Americans are paying more for home loans, car loans and consumer loans than they otherwise would...