Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wide-ranging speech, Giscard indicated that France would be disposed to join a new U.N. disarmament commission, provided it was not dominated by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., as the French claim the present Geneva-based disarmament committee has been. Such a commission, explained a French aide, could lure the Chinese into the arms debate for the first time...
Hungry for job-creating investments from abroad, 20 state governments have set up promotion offices around Europe. Several offer longterm, low-interest loans. The states also pitch job training programs, corporate tax deferment plans that stretch out for years and, of course, the lure of the vast American market, which is bigger and faster growing than all of the Common Market. Business people are also impressed by lower labor costs in the U.S. than in many European countries. In West Germany, for instance, wage costs are about the same as in the U.S., but employer contributions to pension, health...
Freddie Laker, the poor man's Pegasus, is walking on air. His Laker Airways' no-frills Skytrain, a bold gamble to lure passengers between New York and London with a pinchpenny round-trip fare of $245, is paying off like the Irish Sweepstakes. After seven months of operation, an ebullient Laker reported last week...
...Implemented with relative serenity, the Dallas plan called for the busing of some 17,000 students (out of 136,500 in the district) and a heavy concentration of federal funds in schools that were still largely minority. But its centerpiece was a progressive concept: the "magnet" school, designed to lure ninth-to twelfth-grade students of all races by offering them a variety of educational inducements. Desegregation in Dallas, claimed Estes, would pose "a stark contrast" to the violence in Boston, Louisville and other cities. Placid it was, but last week the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...
...General Motors and got lanky James McLernon. Despite seven years of service as Chevrolet's general manufacturing manager, he was passed over for a vice presidency and was ripe for plucking. He left GM with some misgivings: "It was a tough decision to make." But VW's lure was a reported $1 million, five-year contract, plus the chance to put the world's eighth largest automaker into U.S. manufacturing...