Word: luring
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...TIME WHEN BROADWAY CAN'T lure even Neil Simon back for a return engagement (America's most popular playwright will have his next work produced off-Broadway), it may seem odd to find it putting out the welcome mat for Moliere. Yet the adventurous Roundabout Theatre Company has resurrected two one-act plays by the 17th century French master, dubbed them The Moliere Comedies and fashioned a sprightly, entertaining evening. These are slight, early works by the author of Tartuffe and The Misanthrope, but in a fallow Broadway season, Moliere Lite is better than nothing...
Growing inventories have plagued retailers too since they stocked up in anticipation of a strong Christmas season. December sales fell 0.1% from the level of November, even though stores slashed prices to lure shoppers. "The most impressive evidence of a slowdown in the economy is the weakness in retail sales," says Lacy Hunt, chief economist for HSBC Securities. "Retailers are terribly overstocked despite the massive discounting." That is partly because rising interest rates have been making it more costly for already overburdened consumers to borrow and spend. Americans took out a hefty $120 billion in new loans last year, increasing...
Back during the NAFTA debates, H. Ross Perot darkly warned that if NAFTA passed, we would see a drop in the peso, a "giant sucking sound," which would lure U.S. companies south of the border. Now, in the wake of Mexico's recent peso devaluation, it is not just Perot who is saying, "I told...
...told, America is in trouble because of the lower peso. This is decidedly not the case. True, it is partly due to NAFTA that the peso has lowered, but only because NAFTA has forced Mexico to face some economic realities, not because of some plan to lure away American jobs. In fact, it is NAFTA which will enable Mexico to survive this crisis, even allowing both countries--the United States and Mexico--to come out ahead in the long...
...then, we all already knew that the fuzzy creatures that prowl up and down Sesame Street really just represent the gross extremities of liberalism. All that emphasis on cooperation, tolerance and sharing is just a ploy to lure toddlers into embracing Communism. The producers once even dared to portray an interracial couple, Gordon and Maria, who spend their days talking to all sorts of funny-looking monsters. No wonder the American family has disintegrated...