Word: luring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attractions of Yerushalmi's native New York City helped lure him from Harvard. "I want to be a city man again," he said last night. He added that he leaves also for a sentimental reason: to occupy the chair honoring his former teacher...
Ever since the Iranian crisis revitalized President Carter's re-election campaign, Senator Edward Kennedy has been hoping to lure the President out of the White House and into a debate. Last week he thought his chance might come when he and Carter were scheduled to give successive addresses to the Consumer Federation of America. But at Carter's request, Kennedy had to sit in an adjoining room while Carter spoke, and as soon as the President finished, he left...
...inexperienced women who look at faculty members with respect and often a dash of awe. As one professor candidly admits, "We deal with young people when they are most physically beautiful, most open to new thought and experience. All the while we get older. It's quite a lure...
Perhaps not quite so much of a lure now that feminists have zeroed in on the issue. They argue that females are routinely harassed by fanny-patting professors. Even if a woman student agrees to sex, they say, she is being exploited-because the professor has crucial power over her grades and career. Campus women fought back in 1977, when a Yale undergraduate accused her political science professor of sexual harassment, charging that he offered her an A in exchange for sexual favors. Along with several others who said they had been similarly treated, she filed a class-action suit...
...most dazzling run-ups in history, and it underscored the enduring psychological lure of the yellow metal as the most consistently sought-after possession in times of strife and uncertainty. Concludes Sociologist Neil Smelser, author of Theory of Collective Behavior: "The gold rush is a classic case of panic. The people who are dealing in gold are operating under the fantasy that the world economic structure is going to collapse. They are living by the myth hat the only thing that will survive is gold." Harvard Social Psychologist Roger Brown compares the panic to he rush on the gates...