Word: luring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until two years ago, Crimson coaches were allowed to recruit only by letter, by phone or on campus. Alumni nationwide, of course, used their power of persuasion. The lure of the name Harvard still attracted a wealth of Jack Armstrongs. Crimson squads flourished; superior coaching proved edge in several sports...
Despite the lure of Cambridge and the mystique, the admissions committee has found recruitment of high-caliber athletes increasingly difficult. Coaches, admissions officials and athletes agree that much of the problem stems from selling the University's financial aid package to middle-income applicants who qualify for full scholarships elsewhere. To counteract the obstacle of relatively unattractive financial perquisites, alumni and admissions officials stress what Stoeckel calls "the long-term benefits of a Harvard education," the high rate of acceptance at graduate schools, and the University's resources. But Stoeckel admits that when faced with a choice between Harvard...
...Wilson's stern actions pulled Boeing out of its dive. With improved operating efficiency, a slimmed-down work force, and the seemingly irresistible lure of the company's planes, the firm began to right itself. Productivity, which was slumping in the rest of the economy, rose spectacularly. In 1969 it took 25,000 Boeing workers to turn out seven 747s per month; today it takes 11,000. Sales and income started on a vertical path that has not yet ended. Last year's earnings of $505 million more than doubled 1977's already impressive $180 million...
...sooner had Brown arrived last March than he jumped into the annual recruiting scramble. Although he started late, he managed to lure a pair of speedy backcourt men to put zip into the attack: Guards Rod Foster and Mike Holton. The two settled into the lineup slightly after midseason and played more like seniors than freshmen. The team began to jell. Brown scrapped the slick-passing offense he had favored at Denver and returned to Wooden's more traditional style. Sophomore Mike Sanders, a comparatively small 6 ft. 6 in., was switched from forward to center...
...possession of $100,000 in stolen securities. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison. The FBI sought his advice in conducting the Abscam bribery sting that eventually implicated seven Congressmen and Democratic Senator Harrison Williams of New Jersey. While helping the FBI, Meltzer learned that, to lure politicians into the Abscam net, the FBI had set up a phony investment firm called Abdul Enterprises in New York City and invented a fictitious sheik, Kambir Abdul Rahman, who was eager to invest part of his vast fortune...