Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stars -- in its rather literal rendering of three modern classics. In Mary McCarthy's The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt (adapted and directed by Frederic Raphael), a radical journalist (Elizabeth McGovern) meets a crass business executive (Beau Bridges) who makes use of his booze and her boredom to lure her into a one- night stand during a transcontinental railroad trip. (Those were the days!) Owlish and pudgy, Bridges is right for his role, but pillow-soft McGovern is wrong for hers. And many of Raphael's arch lines -- "Stand by for a Fascist invasion," the reporter murmurs to herself...
Whatever the prosecution's outcome, few airline experts expect Eastern to lure enough business travelers to remain independent. The company will lose at least $500 million in 1990, and is currently filling 63% of its seats on its 800 daily flights -- up from 53% in May but far below the 80% needed to break even. Moreover, the recent gain is due more to deep discounting than to Shugrue's aggressive ad campaign...
Even as he upgraded the firm's factories, Masato revised the way in which Mizuno sporting goods were sold. To lure new shoppers to company-owned stores in Osaka and Tokyo, Masato filled the facilities with what he called "full- service sports." Before buying a new set of clubs, golfers can take computerized lessons on improving their swing. Health aficionados can have acupuncture treatments or soothing massages...
...once again temporary kings in the American League East, try to lure me as a faithful but aging servant to the team's doomed pennant hopes, the haunting memories resurface...
...betting is that Bush will not loosen sanctions now, in part as a gesture to black voters he is trying to lure to the G.O.P. Mandela's aim is to leave Washington with some sign that the Administration will not retreat from that grudging support. Continued U.S. sanctions would give Mandela a powerful hand to play when he and other A.N.C. officials eventually sit down to negotiations with the Pretoria government. It would also help Mandela when he arrives next week in Britain, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been anxious to reward South Africa for the gestures De Klerk...