Word: luring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lure of the new nuclear technology and its strategic importance appealed to many young naval officers. But winning a spot in Rickover's Navy was not easy: prospective submariners often had to sit before the old curmudgeon on an unbalanced chair whose front legs had been sawed off by several inches. The admiral's mean streak was legendary. He had no tolerance for defects in men or their work, and he sacked many an officer for being "stupid." Others, like a young ensign named Jimmy Carter, went on to better things...
...added day-care facilities for children and shifted the recreational emphasis from scuba diving to golf and tennis. Now Paris-based Club Mediterranee Group, the world's largest seller of packaged holiday fun, is in the midst of its most radical departure yet: an all-out campaign to lure corporate clients to its 95 villages in 25 countries in all the balmy parts of the globe...
...divide the joint lands equally, a solution that pleased neither tribe. Soon about 300 miles of barbed-wire fence bristled across the region, and the Government ordered 100 Hopi to one side and 10,000 Navajo to the other. By dangling economic incentives, the Government has managed to lure about 4,000 Navajo away from the Hopi area, a choice made easy by the scarcity of jobs and a ban on home construction there. Basic relocation benefits have grown from $25,000 a family to $66,000. Total costs, $106 million to date, may eventually exceed $500 million...
...lure, says Ingram, is "salaries . . . significantly greater than on this side. And the research facilities in the U.S. are also quite an attraction." The British government grant in 1986 for new research equipment ($2 billion) has about half the buying power of that for 1970. Government funding for research was cut 12% (allowing for inflation) between...
...accounting rules. It is "the most radical tax bill that this Congress has seen in half a century," proclaimed the bill's chief sponsor, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Packwood of Oregon. There are legions of winners and losers on both the corporate and personal sides; yet the lure of substantially lower rates and the chance for businesses to compete on a level playing field have helped generate an unusually diverse, if fragile, alliance of more than 600 lobbying interests representing rich and poor, individuals and businesses alike. Called the 15/ 27/33 Coalition (after the proposed rates...