Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...philosophy is sound, it has filtered down through so many layers of bureaucracy that it loses any validity it might have had in the beginning. The thought of the minimum security jail at Walpole, with its few educational programs, and a few more visiting privileges, is supposed to tempt the men in the maximum end. But these men, as they will tell you themselves, have spent their lives fighting the authorities; it will take more than a few carrots, they say, to persuade them to change the underlying premise of their lives...
...have already held three mass demonstrations, chanting "Down with the yakuza!" Taoka's men, according to police, were stunned by such a massive outburst of hostility after years of public passivity. Some of them have even given up their lives of crime under the rising social pressure. To tempt the yakuza toward rehabilitation, Sawada is asking businessmen to hire repentant mobsters. So far he has found jobs...
...loser, you lose less." The big lines, in fact, may gain rather than lose. Laker hopes that the bargain fares will be, in the jargon of the industry, "generative" rather than "diversionary." That is, they will not merely switch passengers from high-fare to low-fare flights but tempt into the air people who would otherwise not fly at all. Wall Street analysts believe just that may happen...
Many economists believe that Carter's proposals are more than adequate to stabilize farm prices without driving them so high that U.S. goods are forced out of foreign markets. High price supports, critics contend, fuel inflation, tempt farmers to grow more than they can sell and enable less efficient growers to pursue wasteful ways. So far, legislators do not agree-and unless they back down, the stage is being set for an open confrontation between Carter and a Congress controlled by his own party...
...misses the intensity of some of Feld's longer works, it also lacks their some times disturbing undertones. A circus of bravura set pieces, it may well join Le Corsaire, Don Quixote and similar pas de deux as staples of gala pro grams. Variations is bound to tempt other virtuoso pairs. There are two reasons, however, why it may not look quite the same: Christine Sarry and Mikhail Baryshnikov...