Word: luring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government must make use of tax incentives to lure private enterprise into creating ghetto job opportunities. The United States must make such investment so profitable that private industry is "scrambling for ghetto opportunities," he said...
CLEOPATRA GOES SLEDDING, by André Hodeir, illustrated by Tomi Ungerer (Grove Press; $3.95). Two wicked crocodiles try to lure a turtle into a boiling soup pot, but the turtle, aided by a mischievous monkey, wins out, and the disappointed crocodiles have to settle for mock-turtle soup...
...Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line...
...enemies so they can attack the pests; more insect-resistant crops can also be developed. Florida eliminated the screwworm fly not by spraying but by sterilizing hordes of the male flies, then liberating them to produce infertile eggs. A still newer method is the use of sex attractants to lure male insects into traps and thus to their death...
...this job." Another cartoon shows a striking telephone employee uneasily eying a solid wall of computerized dialing equipment. Down in the corner of the drawing, a miniature repairman informs Punk: "This strike may not work. That machine is a scab." Oliphant admits to using this slightly puerile device to lure the comic-strip readers to his cartoon. "It's a form of brain washing," he says...