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Word: luring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outlay allegedly was part of a deal under which the British government would provide $160 million in loans, grants and guarantees to lure the new company to build an auto plant in economically depressed Ulster. De Lorean is producing a high-performance sports car that sells for $25,000 in the U.S. Some 2,000 cars have been sold since the auto was introduced last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading the Mail | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...wrote its catalogue, although much of the art itself was, in either case, extraordinary. The best of the three was "Paris-Berlin," although one needed the stamina of a goat to traverse the screes and piles of evidence it presented. But in all three shows there was the lure of epic subject, rightly presented by Director Pontus Hulten and his staff as one of the great dramas of cultural history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paris 1937-1957: An Elegy | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...devising the conflict-of-interest guidelines that it did, then, the Faculty Council had to sail through a very narrow channel. On one side lay the Scylla of lax control over professors which could involve the University in sticky financial conflicts or lure faculty from their teaching commitments; on the other rested the Charybdis of strictures rigid enough to drive away top-notch professors. Whether the council succeeded may not be evident for years, when the commitments that Harvard's faculty make in the next year or so begin to surface. And as Watson suggested, the University may never learn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Cutting Edge | 10/10/1981 | See Source »

...including such popular runs as New York-Miami, New York-San Francisco and Los Angeles-Hawaii. The carrier cut the cost of a New York-Los Angeles ticket from $478 to $219, and billed it in huge newspaper ads as "the lowest unrestricted fare of any major airline." To lure passengers to its international flights, where it still makes most of its money, Pan Am offered travelers a coupon that would allow paying customers to take along one family member free to cities on Pan Am's worldwide system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shootout in the Skies | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...still is--the facility that is supposed to fuel the regeneration of Crimson roundball. The new-old arena with the magical, suspended on air, removeable astroturf carpet suitable for winner baseball practice is supposed to lure big-time high school players and biggertime college teams to Harvard basketball...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: UTexas Visits the IAB (Hah!) | 9/25/1981 | See Source »

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