Word: luring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder, then, that three years later Harvard remains the only Ivy League institution not to have given any organized support to the growing, interdisciplinary field. It is also no wonder that the Women's Studies committee one year ago could not lure renowned literary critic Elaine Showalter away from an offer at Princeton, which--unlike Harvard--has already demonstrated its commitment to the field...
...particularly from India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, who typically settle for dowries of only about $1,000. Such marriages are now thought to account for as many as half of all those in the sheikdoms, raising government fears that the region's Arab identity will be diluted. To lure men away from the non-Arab brides, the government is / considering a national fund to subsidize the dowries of grooms who marry native brides. Some women in the Emirates have another solution: give wives more rights, they say, and the bride price will drop...
Unlike most artistic directors, who announce their seasons long in advance and lure actors with specific roles, Williamstown's fey, mercurial Nikos Psacharopoulos makes up his schedule as he goes along, books performers with last-minute phone calls and rehearses even main-stage productions for as little as eleven days. Psacharopoulos, a Yale drama professor, joined the company as associate director its first season and became artistic director the next year. Glass Menagerie, typically, was slated four weeks before it opened, after Psacharopoulos publicly considered other potential casts...
...more liberal note, the committee recommended the retention of so-called merit awards designed to lure top students to Harvard. In addition, it urged that the GSAS continue to guarantee support for second year students at the same level provided in their first year...
...these and some 60,000 other computer owners, electronic home banking, a long-promised technology, has finally come of age. About 50 banks, including many of the largest, are competing vigorously to lure computer users into home banking, often by such inducements as free software, bargain-priced modems and reduced fees for access to the news wires. Betting on the trend, Chemical Bank and BankAmerica, two pioneers, last month entered into a joint venture with AT&T and Time Inc. to market banking and discount stock-brokerage services to computer-equipped households across...