Word: wooing
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...Harkness Common dining room will try to woo back lost student-customers with lower prices and more flexible meal plans next terms...
...question remains whether the Vatican can woo a far tougher opponent: China's Mao Tse-tung. In recent years, Pope Paul has delicately noted that the church favors the "just expression" of social changes in China, but Mao has been slow to reply. The land once so open to Matteo Ricci remains for the moment incontestably closed...
Manhattan's Lincoln Center. On Tuesday at the Metropolitan Opera, Domingo portrayed King Gustav III of Sweden who tries to woo Montserrat Caballe away from her husband in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. On Thursday, across the plaza at the New York City Opera, where Domingo broke into the big time four years ago, he played the Earl of Essex to Beverly Sills' Queen Elizabeth in a splendid new production of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux. Like any operatic tenor, Domingo does a lot of theatrical dying. "When you are dying," he says with a wink...
When jockeying over the nomination began during the winter, there had seemed little chance of arousing much G.O.P. opposition to add to the 40 Democrats expected to be against Carswell. Brooke started to woo such Republicans as Oregon's Mark Hatfield and Robert Packwood, Maryland's Charles Mathias, and Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker. He never relented. On Feb. 25, he made a floor speech opposing Carswell's elevation. It was a turning point; it got anti-Administration machinery moving...
...ever-expanding population, with more customers for business. Yet in some circumstances, the best way to keep localities attractive would be to restrain population growth. Another way would be to alter local tax policies. Since most communities depend chiefly on real estate taxes for their revenues, their leaders often woo development that tears up the landscape while producing congestion and other social ills. But attitudes are changing in some places. This month, for example, a special study council created by the California legislature called for "a population distribution policy." More important, the council warned that the profits must be taken...