Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reads, in part, the text of a current U.S. Army recruitment advertisement, which also includes color photographs of nine contented young men clad in sports attire ranging from a fencing suit to boxing trunks. Altogether, it is an alluring ad, the sort of thing that might well tempt a young jock to join up. But if the Army really wants to jam its recruiting offices, it might do better to focus its advertising on an actual case history: specifically, that of Tennis Player First Class (and Specialist Fourth Class) Stanley Roger Smith...
Some of his monuments, if built, would be lethal. One consists of twelve-story-high bowling balls rolling inexorably down the alley of Park Avenue. "The balls," notes Oldenburg, "are an at tempt to make tangible my feeling that Park Avenue is a dangerous street where you can get run over and killed very easily. The balls intensify and monumentalize this danger." Another, for Grant Park in Chicago, is a pro digious windshield wiper, slapping back and forth between two long rectangular pools. Says the artist: "These serve as swimming pools for the city's children...
...nobody has yet figured out the cause. Economic decline, for example, does not bring a drop in the number of miles driven. A reasonable explanation might be that recessions breed a general mood of caution that is reflected in driving habits, while upturns induce expansive feelings that may tempt some drivers to recklessness. But that is only speculation, and has not been substantiated by any studies...
...peoples' contributions" are quite heavy, Hanoi has every interest to see that the postwar situation and the withdrawal of "certain Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam" proceed smoothly enough not to tempt President Nixon to reinvolve the United States in Vietnam, directly or through Cambodia...
...S.D.R.s, keeping only small "working balances" of new dollars in their treasuries. That would leave the problem of phasing out the roughly $90 billion of gold and dollars already stashed away in national reserves or circulating outside the U.S. Lawrence Krause of the Brookings Institution suggests that the IMF tempt the nations now holding these assets to turn them in gradually for S.D.R.s, too, by offering to pay interest on the deposits of gold and old dollars that it receives...