Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, galleries must rely on word-of-mouth advertising to lure art connoisseurs from Harvard's Fogg or Sackler Museums, artists said...
...certain race or ethnicity, one should realize that colleges that offer race-based aid packages (or any other perks based on skin color, like affirmative action) are really bribing the students into accepting a college whose race relations climate might otherwise turn them off. Universities find it simpler to lure minorities with money than to make the campus attractive to them in its own right...
...rate. That did more harm than good, and currency traders resumed dumping lire and billions of British pounds. In London Prime Minister John Major's government, determined to stay with the E.C. system in the face of the pound's continued fall, tried to lure investors at midweek with an increase in the Bank of England's interest rate, from 10% to 12%. Even when, in desperation, the rate was pumped to 15%, speculators went on selling pounds and buying marks. The government gave in, pulling the pound out of the exchange system and canceling its rate increases...
...June, when Compaq Computer Corp., a premium-priced clonemaker, came out with yet another inexpensive model. Now IBM is fighting back with its own set of budget machines, priced from about $1,100 to $2,800. They aren't the cheapest, but the company hopes their features will lure customers. Analysts predict rough times for the cloners...
President Neil L. Rudenstine said at a race relations workshop this week that the University may eventually be forced to offer special scholarships in order to lure Black students to Harvard. That would violate the Ivy League agreement to award financial aid strictly on a need basis...