Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaking the small-town life-style that American writers since Sinclair Lewis have been excoriating. Prudish and bigoted, they have everything their smug little hearts could desire - except the power to reproduce themselves (probably because they lack fresh air and real sunshine). They must send sirens up to lure studs down, and that is where the boy - despite his dog's warning - goes wrong, precipitating one of the year's better chase adventures...
...finally rewarded when Blood senses a female with his telepathic powers. They track her to an abandoned house and defend her against a roverpak in a boring, senseless and long drawn out shoot-out. Quilla June (Susanne Benton) then seduces Vic before he can rape her and manages to lure him to her home downunder. Quilla's community, a new Topeka, is composed of survivors convinced that America's Golden Age was in 1900 and determined to reproduce it in underground safety. Dissenters are executed by a humanoid robot dressed in overalls who snaps necks with his huge hands...
Princeton University, some might say, has come up with a better idea. This week, Princeton began a series of eight advertisements in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to lure American corporations to set up shop in a new, university-owned industrial park development...
With those old grievances still rankling, it did not take long for other teams to follow the Patriots' strike lead, particularly when the owners tried to lure New England back to work with an offer the players called insulting. In exchange for a return to work and a two-week no-strike pledge, the owners promised only that there would be no reprisals and that they would make a new but undefined contract proposal by this Thursday. The Patriots turned the owners down flat. With that, they were locked out, and by last Wednesday the New York Jets...
Over the past four years, major scandals involving FHA loans have been uncovered in 20 cities across the U.S. The latest is Chicago, where the Tribune recently turned up dozens of cases of mortgage shenanigans that have cost the Government millions of dollars. Often, real estate dealers would lure a low-income family into buying a ghetto house, perhaps by putting up part of the down payment. The company would then secure FHA insurance for the mortgage on the house, typically based on an unrealistically high appraisal that inattentive FHA officials did not question. After the financially strapped tenant...