Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ugetsu Monogatari" at 7:30 p.m. The legend ofa potter, Genjuro and a farmer Tobei, who, drawnby the lure of wartime profits, risk not their ownlives but the lives and happiness of theirfamilies...
...prevalence of Spanish language and culture has become a lure to Latin visitors, who freely call Miami the capital of Latin America. In the past 10 years the Cubans have been joined by Puerto Ricans, Nicaraguans, Salvadorans, Colombians, Guatemalans and Haitians. The Brazilians, who discovered Miami with a vengeance two years ago, now jokingly call it "Brazil's fastest growing city." Last year they were so ubiquitous that Portuguese became the predominant language among shopkeepers in downtown Miami. This year it is the Argentines who have arrived in droves. "At any cocktail party in South America, if you mention Aventura...
...come to life on Capitol Hill after the great debates on health care and the North American Free Trade Agreement are resolved. In fact, immigration questions already lurk beneath the surface of both these issues: should citizens carry a national medical identification card, and will the trade agreement lure more or fewer Mexicans north? Almost surely, Congress will try to reform immigration law again...
...Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, more than 30 million Europeans left their homelands -- some involuntarily -- to settle in the U.S. It was by far the greatest mass movement in human history. The influx continues, in ever greater variety. For people in search of better lives, America remains the ultimate lure...
...culmination of a commitment made by former President Derek C. Bok and former acting dean of the faculty Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky after repeated protests by students in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Once spurred to action by vocal and committed undergraduates, Bok and Rosovsky managed to lure DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. away from Duke with a crucial dedication to future tenure appointments...