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Word: tempts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Route 6A then runs through West Barnstable, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis and Brewster. On a sunny day with no wind, Sandy Neck beach in Barnstable is perfect for a picnic. Even in April it can get warm enough to tempt some into the water. For those who can think of books and vacation at the same time, the Parnassus Bookstore on Route 6A in Yarmouth is a fine second-hand book shop...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Seaside Follies | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

Roth's aide said Roth has recently added a provision to the bill to prohibit financial aid officers from reducing awards because of the tax credit. He added that $250 was not enough to tempt schools to raise their tuition...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: A Cure for the Middle Income College Crunch | 3/16/1978 | See Source »

Neiman-Marcus, with its proved disdain for small change, is by no means the only luxury store to move into the Washington market. Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, all have opened one or more outlets in or near the capital; all have done well enough to tempt established stores such as Hecht's and Woodward & Lothrop to retreat from their old bargain-counter ways. Mercedes-Benz thinks well enough of the area to service it with five agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Boomtown on the Potomac | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...problem as TIP; they would be hard to administer. There also would be serious difficulties in defining who was qualified to receive the job subsidy and in guarding against fraud. The plans have run into stiff opposition from union leaders, who fear that federal subsidy for young workers would tempt companies to lay off older, more experienced hands in favor of hiring the cheaper young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Search for Stagflation Remedies | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...over her head and her legs wrapped around the greatest actor in the world--the first director of Great Britain's National Theater, member of the British Parliament, now 70 years old--who is grunting and whacking away at her. "The Harold Robbins people," the ads for The Betsy tempt: "What you dream, they do." Not in my wildest nightmares have I ever dreamed anything like that...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Not the Promis'd End | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

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