Word: luring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci promises multiyear funding of weapons contracts. That could lure back into defense work some subcontractors who have quit in disgust, and the military budget bill passed by the House last week approves the idea. The Defense Department is also likely to ask Congress for about $500 million in fiscal 1983 to help defense contractors expand production, and $1 billion a year thereafter. Some of the money would probably be used to design and buy Government-owned production machinery for use by defense manufacturers. The Administration is drafting a bill to clarify and broaden its powers...
...Hill both Democrats and Republicans are adding sweeteners to their bills to lure votes. "It's rather an unusual way of marking up tax bills," says Democratic Representative James Jones of Oklahoma. "But these are unusual times." Besides offering more tax deductions to small businesses, the Democrats are trying to improve on the Administration's $2,500 tax credit for independent oil producers and royalty owners; this could influence as many as 30 Southern Congress men. Says Democrat William Brodhead of Michigan: "It's like the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. For every...
...female lays velvety, tan masses of 100 to 1,000 eggs on tree trunks and buildings, on the undersides of cars, trucks and trailers, in carefully stacked woodpiles. Lighter colored and larger than the male, the female does not fly but attracts the male with a powerful chemical sex lure. By August both parents will have died, but the hardy eggs will survive through the winter, hatching in the spring and starting anew the devastating cycle...
...Africa!" reads the copy. "A continent spilling over with adventure, mystery and the lure of "hatari"--danger. A haven for two million animals. The thunder of a thousand thirsty antelope scurrying across plains as wide as oceans... Teddy Roosevelt was one of the first Americans to journey into this wilderness wonder," it continues. He arrived "with his 'big stick', dashing, serviceable safari wear and a hundred bearers in tow, all dressed in Alice-blue sweaters...
Human sweat will certainly attract mosquitoes, but will it also lure members of the opposite sex? That hardly seems to be a gripping question for a perfume company. But Jovan Inc. of Chicago (1980 sales: $120 million) currently is thinking about little else. In 1972 the company scored a hit with Musk Oil, a fragrance for which it claimed almost mystical powers of "animal arousal." Now Jovan is spending up to $6 million on provocative TV ads to promote Andron, a fragrance that it contends is "capable of triggering an intense magnetic reaction" in men and women alike. The perfume...