Word: woo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public school system has been attacked from all sides. The front line of dozens of federal and privately sponsored committees, organizations, and education experts have bombarded the American education process with criticism, charging that it turns out students deficient in even the three "R's." Politicians hoping to woo voters have taken up this fight, announcing dramatic plans for rehauling the schools. And last but not least, journalists themselves have joined the fray, printing endless articles deploring the deterioration of the schools and demanding action...
...Administration's determination to maintain a hard line against Central American leftists, the State Department last week denied a visa to Ruben Zamora, a relatively moderate member of the F.D.R.-F.M.L.N. coalition that is fighting the Salvadoran government. Zamora, who has made frequent visits to Washington to woo members of Congress and has met in the past months with U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone, had been invited to speak in the U.S. The Administration's excuse was that Zamora had publicly welcomed the killing of a U.S. military adviser in El Salvador last May. In fact, Zamora...
Soviet attempts to woo the international peace movement clearly have been set back?and the antinuclear movement might be damaged by a wave of you-can't-trust-the-Soviets feeling. David Corn, a leader of U.S. antinuclear activists, writing an open letter to Andropov in the New York Times, asserted, "Your edge in the propaganda war of peace was shot down when the Korean jetliner fell from the sky ... A new 'get tough' attitude in the West will hinder our efforts . . . You now have to decide if the Soviet Union really gives a whit about peace...
...then, Shamir still cannot patch together a convincing parliamentary majority, Herzog may turn to Labor, the largest party in the Knesset. Labor Leader Peres, 60, had begun to woo members of the small parties as soon as he heard the news of Begin's resignation. But the opposition has suffered from the long-festering feud between Peres and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Besides, given Shamir's rapid move to consolidate power, it seemed unlikely that Labor would be given the chance to return to power without elections, which are now scheduled...
First, he tried to woo the kid by walking him into the Indoor Track and Tennis Center (ITT) and showing him the track--a facility some call the fastest in the world. Sometimes that's all it took. But sometimes the visitor asked the question Haggerty didn't want to hear: where's the outdoor track? Haggerty usually just said. "It's in the Stadium." Rarely did he bother to show off the run-down four-lane cinder circuit...