Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...businesses would receive tax breaks and other incentives, may not be enough to draw employers into the dangerous world of drugs and violent crime that chronic poverty has created. After the Watts riots of 1965, Howard Allen, senior board member of Southern California Edison, was active in trying to lure manufacturing to the inner city. This time he is more pessimistic. To him it seems that the obstacles to attracting job-creating enterprises are more firmly entrenched than they were 25 years ago. Says Allen: "We are heading in the direction whose only definition is one of textbook class warfare...
...numbers that are even better. About 38% of upscale cigar buyers are also millionaires. Better than 4 out of 5 own at least two cars; nearly two-thirds collect antiques; 60% wear a $500-plus watch, while 90% traveled abroad in the past year. This type of demographics can lure a lot of upscale advertisers...
...G.O.P.'s women candidates tend to be more progressive on family and social issues such as day care than their male Republican counterparts, but every bit as fiscally conservative. The combination is a strong lure for middle-class voters. A number of female candidates who support abortion rights have won primary battles that could portend problems for antiabortion Republicans. In Houston, for example, congressional candidate Dolly Madison McKenna defeated antiabortion opponent Esther Lee Yao although Yao outspent her several times over. In Illinois' Republican primary, state representative Penny Pullen, an antiabortionist and disciple of right-to-lifer Phyllis Schlafly...
...first industries to collapse under the weight of the recession. Last year, following the building boom of the go-go 1980s, housing suffered its worst decline since World War II: new home starts plunged 15%, to 1 million units. But with falling interest rates and the lure of tax credits enticing consumers back into the market, the industry is showing surprising signs of rebirth...
...seems to have a positive impact on police egos, however. Navarro, the Broward County sheriff, has become something of a celebrity from his appearances on Cops; he has been criticized in the local media for taking too many trips to promote the show. The lure of Hollywood money is also hard for cops to resist. In Florida's "Damsel of Death" case, in which Aileen Wuornos was accused of killing seven men who picked her up on the highway, three police investigators reportedly made an arrangement with Wuornos' lesbian lover to share in a TV-movie deal even before...