Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then packing your clothes in a cardboard suitcase and hitching to the next fleabag hotel for tomorrow's exhibition with the Black Barons. Finally, baseball is the ultimate game, corporate-American style, where paunchy men gamble for high stakes on whether their stables of funny-suited heroes can lure enough disciples to pay off the mortgage on their shiny stadiums...
...Lenient. Rumania's attractions are obvious. Though European experts give Rumanian medical training high marks, admission requirements for Americans are relatively lenient. Until this year, when the Rumanians began demanding at least two years of preparatory college. Americans were accepted directly out of secondary school. It was this lure that attracted Raoul Mendelovice at age 17-immediately after his graduation from New York City's highly regarded Bronx High School of Science with an impressive 97% average. Now in his second year of the six-year Rumanian medical program, Mendelovice notes that he will be finishing up just...
...only new students but alumni dollars. He says he has never felt "any inordinate alumni pressure" to take more athletes, but says this might result from the fact that Harvard has "never had a big string of losing teams." If Crimson athletes were suddenly to falter, if the lure of Harvard were suddenly to fade, Jewett concedes the future might bring more pressure...
...track meet in Europe and received a medal and an envelope. The envelope contained a cash "appearance fee"-remuneration for showing up to compete in the event-and the provider was a member of the host country's amateur federation. An American track-meet promoter, anxious to lure a top dash man to his indoor meet to increase the gate, called a speedster and promised him $800 plus expenses for joining the field. But two meets were scheduled on the opposite coast for the same weekend, and the sprinter had been offered round-trip plane tickets by both meet...
...menaces of the past as poliomyelitis. Nonetheless, there are signs of a reawakening to the measles danger. In Los Angeles, thousands of youngsters turned up for shots after school authorities threatened to bar them from classes without proof of inoculations. In New York, health officials used circus clowns to lure youngsters to vaccination centers. Such gimmickry has the full blessings of the Carter Administration, which has set as a goal the inoculation by the fall of 1979 of 90% of all American youngsters-not only against measles but against five other avoidable diseases as well: polio, whooping cough, German measles...