Word: luring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retailers can continue to advertise credit in general wording ("Ask About Our E-Z Payments Plan"), but if an ad men tions even one specific term it must go on to list all others. That could embarrass ghetto storekeepers, many of whom lure the poor into expensive installment contracts by trumpeting "No Money Down - Years...
...arty checks help bankers lure customers from each other-at the customers' expense; banks generally charge a penny a check extra. Some picture checks may invite forgery, since a signature could get lost amid the busy patterns. That consideration has been overpowered, however, by the new checks' appeal to women, who are doing an increasing share of family banking, and to many people who hunger for any touch of individuality in the everyday things that they...
Finny Barrier. Scientists now foresee exciting possibilities in the control of fish by sonic commands. They might, for example, be used to lure dangerous fish away from swimming areas or from divers in the sea. There are even potential military applications. By broadcasting intermittently at a popular shark frequency, a sound projector could provide a moored ship with an effective finny barrier against enemy frogmen...
Inflation has damaged the quality of life in the U.S., particularly in cities, and is cutting into the social fabric. Companies find it increasingly difficult to lure employees from field offices to head quarters cities where prices are highest, particularly in New York and Chicago. Lofty interest rates and fast-rising land and construction costs aggravate the na tion's shortage of modern housing and put homes beyond the financial reach of many people...
...constructing additional housing for Harvard faculty and graduate students. For it seems quite likely that the existence of such new facilities will not simply (if at all) take Harvard personnel out of the Boston or Cambridge housing markets and place them in university buildings, but will in addition lure back to Cambridge and Boston students and faculty now living in the suburbs. Furthermore, existing Harvard housing now occupied by graduate students (such as Peabody Terrace) cannot be opened to non-Harvard residents without substantially increasing rents (even assuming, implausibly, that displacing students in favor of others would solve either group...