Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counting the drive to and from the airport). To save suburbanites the trouble of traveling into the city to catch a bus, Greyhound built satellite terminals near mass transit systems on the edges of Chicago and Cleveland-an idea that it plans to extend to other cities. As a lure for passengers from abroad, Greyhound sells a $99 foreign-tour ticket that allows non-Americans to travel anywhere on the system for up to 30 days. Meanwhile, the line has started to serve foreigners where they live. It launched a subsidiary in Korea last spring and another in Nigeria last...
Irresistible Lure. Gramco's leaders have impressive backgrounds. Keith Barish, 26, chairman of the top holding company, is a onetime White House intern who conceived the idea for the fund and has made millions from the venture. Rafael G. Navarro, 34, Gramco's president, is a wealthy Cuban refugee who was a diplomat in pre-Castro days. And then there is the portly Salinger, 45, the former White House press secretary; he serves as a Gramco director, spokesman, supersalesman and deputy chairman of the British unit...
Under them, Gramco had an irresistible lure for foreign investors who are suspicious of stocks, bonds and other paper assets. Unlike most mutual funds, Gramco's USIF invested not in securities but in solid U.S. real estate. Colorful brochures showed some of the 214 properties that prospective investors would be able to buy into through the fund. Among Gramco's holdings: the 32-story LTV Tower in Dallas, the Northeast Airlines Building in Miami, an industrial park in Phoenix and apartment complexes and shopping centers in 17 states. The fund valued its holdings at $758 million, but that...
...correct what they describe as "problems of racial economic imbalance," the Tunku and Razak have been stacking the cards in favor of the Malays. According to Razak's closest adviser. Tan Sri Ghanzali Shaft, the new government hopes to lure 20% of the Malays into commerce with tax breaks for new enterprises and other incentives...
...will hit you on the head and drive somewhere and break open the box," says New York Hackie Milt Pashkin. San Francisco cabbies refuse to use cashboxes already installed because they fear mixups over money after the boxes are unlocked at the garage. Other cabbies feel that even the lure of a $5 haul is enough for an addict desperate for a fix. Or, as a New York cabby put it, "they might beat up the driver because he's not carrying enough money. Lockboxes are fine for the owners because they protect the profits. No wonder owners...