Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the whole enterprise unravels, mostly because of an ill-considered at tempt to make a statement about contemporary issues. Lancaster is a cashiered Air Force general, unhinged by his experiences as a P.O.W. in Viet...
...when it comes right down to it, we have no choice: we must beg, cajole, tempt, propitiate, and otherwise urge out professors to pause for a moment, to descend from the high loft of prestige, and to show a little understanding. As my roommate gently put it, "I think the faculty forgets that the college exists solely for us." I don't want the students to become as selfish as the faculty appears to be; that would accomplish nothing. Only compromise can resolve the calendar and Reading Period dilemma, but when one side refuses to moderate its views or simply...
Starting off 1977, the industry's only real problem is excess capacity to make small cars. Both GM and American Motors have been offering rebates to tempt buyers into ordering models like the Vega and Pacer, and Ford Chairman Henry Ford II has complained publicly that his company must build more small cars than it wants to in order to keep the average gas mileage of its fleet within federal standards...
...effect failed to post the immediate 10% increase that it voted for in Qatar. Instead, the Indonesians have increased prices less than 6% on a grade of crude that accounts for more than half the country's output. The motivation seemed to be a desire not to tempt Japan-the buyer of most of Indonesia's oil-to turn to Saudi Arabia for oil. Said one official of the Mining Ministry: "What is the fun of fixing high prices if the Indonesian crude subsequently is not sold...
...miles into the Atacama. But the Chileans, regarded by some military men as the better fighters and tacticians, might be able to regroup and eventually push back the Peruvians. An armed conflict, if it did occur, would not only take a bloody toll of the participants but could also tempt other countries on the continent into similar action. Potentially volatile territorial disputes, for example, simmer between Venezuela and both Guyana and Colombia, and also between Peru and Ecuador...