Word: luring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authority to build a first-class university. Even Chancellor Wharton cannot shift a secretarial position or substantially expand a department without permission from the state division of the budget. Tuition money is bled away to pay off old construction debts. And there is not enough new money to lure crack faculty or beef up the graduate curriculum. Under the dead hand of such regulations, continues the report, SUNY is "well behind" other major public universities in research and graduate education...
...spent the next two years keeping that window open. A new federal rule allowing tax breaks for investments in research helped lure prospective backers. Sales climbed, the stock rose, and Greene launched another offering that sold 1.4 million shares at $26.75. Today Hybritech produces 40% of all the monoclonal antibody products on the market, notably diagnostic kits to test for allergies, pregnancy, prostate cancer and thyroid deficiencies. The company's sales went from $6.9 million in 1983 to an estimated $14.5 million in 1984, and its profit for 1984 will be $1.3 million...
...Californians it was perhaps the ultimate insult. In an effort to lure film production eastward, the state of Florida took out an ad in show business trade papers with an illustration of one of the most famous sights in Southern California, the hill that displays the giant sign HOLLYWOOD. But where those nine letters should have been, an artist had superimposed seven different ones: FLORIDA. "Hollywood weather without Hollywood overhead," read the caption below...
Many states, by contrast, will almost give the capitol away to anyone willing to shout, "Lights, camera, action!" All 50 states and several cities have film commissions working hard to lure moviemakers...
...roomful of first-graders turns thumbs down, but not on the villain. They think the boy has made himself too easy a mark. He gets higher grades in a rerun by standing back and shouting, "Let me alone!" as the man, played by Teacher Jon Merritt, tries to lure him into a make-believe...