Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which is just about as long as Gesellschaft fur Schafsverleih plans to own its sheep. Meanwhile, Anette tries to make sure that customers protect the animals from predators of all kinds. She turned down one customer located near a community of Turks who, she feared, might have found the lure of shish kebab on the hoof irresistible...
...sight. Students and the unemployed gathered at access ramps; they offered themselves as passengers at a dollar a head for cars with fewer than three occupants. The buses, meanwhile, ran virtually empty. Of the 90,000 free-ride tickets distributed by the Southern California Rapid Transit District to lure new riders during the first two weeks of April, only 315 were used...
...from $36 million in fiscal '72 to about $117 million now, the agency's scientific research effort has languished because of underfunding. Average salaries in OSHA'S research unit are about $13,000, equal to the pay of a good Washington secretary and hardly enough to lure top talent...
...great tradition of theatrical producers, Zev Bufman is keeping subtlety in the wings. Witness his attempts to lure Phyllis Star Cloris Leachman into his stage production of Same Time, Next Year. "He sent three dozen roses to the Phyllis set and kept pleading," recalls Leachman, 49. "The last communiqué was: 'Please come or I'll die.' " Cloris relented, along with fellow Phyllis Regular Dick School. The two are now appearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where so far their fans have been mostly older folk. Says Phyllis: "I know, because the intermissions are longer so they...
...weeks. Says Robert H. Stovall, vice president of Reynolds Securities: "The next 50 points will be easy." He and others think the fact that the Dow has closed above 1,000 even once will topple the "psychological barrier" in investors' minds, and publicity about the event will lure many small individual buyers. On the other hand, many investors have picked 1,000 as an arbitrary point at which to sell and cash in their gains...