Word: luring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Taiwan. The Soviet Union, he stressed, did not have a "two Chinas" policy-in other words, unlike the U.S., it did not maintain ties to the island, which mainland China considers an integral part of its territory. Brezhnev's bid was part of a long-range effort to lure China away from its friendship with the U.S. Says Robert Jensen, professor of geography at Syracuse University: The Soviets "are having considerable success in driving a wedge between us and our European allies. Here they're doing a similar thing on another front...
...hours and styles of living. The merged Star and Tribune will apparently be an expanded version of the more traditional morning paper, and will be run by Tribune Editor Charles Bailey. The new product will preserve the Star name and some of its arts and neighborhood features, as a lure to its former readers, and will maintain a limited afternoon presence, with a press run of 30,000 to 40,000 copies for newsstand sale. Some 86 employees, 51 from the editorial staffs, will be let go by the two papers. The company softened the blow for those dismissed with...
...case for a federal energy tax is many-sided and obvious. As demand for petroleum has softened, drilling activity has begun to slow. At the same time, the drooping price of crude has reduced the lure of costly alternative energy projects like coal gasification and shale-oil mining...
...lure passengers, the airlines have slashed fares suicidally almost without interruption since last fall. Last week TWA and Capitol Airlines joined United Airlines in offering $99 one-way night flights between New York and San Francisco, which is far less than the going Greyhound bus fare...
...when oil companies are looking for new ways to lure drivers to their pumps, the once thriving company card may become an endangered species. Last week Atlantic Richfield Co., the eighth largest American gasoline retailer, an nounced that it was getting out of the credit-card business altogether. After April 15, Arco gas stations will accept neither its own blue-and-gray cards, which are held by more than 3 million people, nor those of Visa, American Express or other credit companies. Industry experts predict that other big gasoline retailers will eventually drop out of or cut back...