Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reardon said he did not know if the acceptance rate among blacks would be lower than that among whites, adding that his staff will make "a tremendous at tempt" to recruit the accepted minority students to come here. Referring to scholarship money offered to blacks as an incentive to come here. Reardon said that "If a black kid's parents are making $50,000 a year, we're not going to offer him money to come here as some schools would...
...plot, which matters least of all, has to do with Fanny Brice's later years after her separation from Nicky Arnstein, who did her so bad in the original. Omar Sharif, forever limpid, shows up again as the ne'er-do-well gambler who tries to tempt Fanny away from Billy, but she rejects him. The ending is an occasion for a few tears and a little heartbreak; we well know from all the funny ladies of movie history that happiness does not come with success. Only producers might think otherwise, and they keep it to themselves...
...America has been living with a presumption of continuing emergency. A vanity in crisis survival has developed. Eisenhower, that least energetic of Chief Executives, talked about crusades; Johnson declared a war on poverty; the Kennedys thrilled over the technological gadgetry of crisis situation rooms that made macho solutions more tempt ing. The public has come to demand outsize Presidents, and then to be disappointed with them. Think of it: this man might have to press the button - though for nearly 30 years no one has pressed the button. Summit meetings have been dramatized as if the drawn-out process...
...resolved on the basis of cooperation-or can, I should say, be made unmanageable on the basis of confrontation." Ford deplored the use of oil as a political weapon, as Arab countries had employed it last year. "To use one commodity for political purposes," he cautioned, "will inevitably tempt other countries to use their commodities for their own purposes...
...critics' fear is that issuance of the notes would tempt depositors to pull more money out of savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks (generally called "thrift institutions"). This would further cripple the housing industry, which depends heavily on mortgage money advanced by those institutions. Even AFL-CIO President George Meany, worried about jobs in the construction industry, joined the chorus of criticism. Citicorp held off the note sale, though it may try again this week...