Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will face far fiercer opposition than the Civil Aeronautics Board encountered when it carried out its successful deregulation of airfares last year. Alfred Kahn, as CAB chief, had to deal with only 26 airlines, and some of the biggest backed deregulation, judging correctly that lower fares would tempt more people to fly and actually increase their profits. The ICC must contend with 16,600 regulated truck lines-at least one in every congressional district, truckers like to point out-and most are united in the belief that lowering rates and letting new firms enter the business will not generate more...
...true despite the West's recent program to upgrade its forces. Facing NATO'S 7,000 tanks and 2,700 artillery pieces, for example, are 21,000 and 10,000, respectively, for the East. In manpower NATO is dwarfed 626,000 vs. 943,000. Such overwhelming military superiority could tempt the Soviets to try enforcing their policies on Western Europe through intimidation...
...season to be studious. The papers you have to write and the texts you haven't read are enough to keep you chained to your desk even if the Boston theaters were offering something to tempt you away, which they are not. And it's too cold to brave the lines for Superman. In short, sentiments of gloom and doom pervade the Harvard campus this month...
...Some White House aides think if the 1980 and 1981 increases were eliminated for younger workers-most likely those 21 and younger-as many as 450,000 jobs might open up for them. Carter will get strong opposition from union leaders, who argue that the change would tempt employers to replace unskilled adults with teenagers...
...incapable of the exertions required by this farflung, not to mention farfetched plot. You can't escape the thought that the largest danger they present these days lies not in the real world, but in the movie world. They are almost the last incontrovertibly evil figures left to tempt film producers, the last people we can all agree to hate...