Word: woos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that closed the Piazza San Marco was built during Napoleonic days. Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo on the Grand Canal, but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptuous. Now another brash suitor, France's Le Corbusier, has come to woo a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged...
...travelers last year left more than $2 billion abroad v. $1.1 billion spent by foreigners visiting the U.S.-the Government will step up its promotion to lure more travelers from abroad. Among the latest features: $99 bus tickets good for unlimited travel through the nation. To woo more foreign investors, the Administration plans to give them tax breaks on their U.S. stock market profits...
Dallas-based Braniff Airways never went in much for the frills with which most large U.S. airlines woo the customers. The nation's ninth largest line often gives indifferent service, has been slow to buy new planes, has resisted innovations. Braniff, for example, is a leader in the fight against in-flight entertainment. Last week the line decided to change its course. Invading the Los Angeles executive suite of rival Continental Airlines, it picked a new boss who has won a reputation as one of the industry's brightest young men. Braniff's new president: Harding Luther...
Aeronautics Board, which is now considering what to do about the fare-cutting fight. United also sells ten-trip commuter tickets for $137.75, and all but TWA woo commuter business by providing quick baggage checkin, preprinted tickets sold at the gate and easy-to-remember schedules...
...opening of Murray Schisgal's therapeutically hilarious Luv. Sorry-I-was-ever-born plays now sound like hollow parodies rather than dour profundities; since Luv raised its satirical whoop, playgoers are bound to lessen their self-commiserating indulgence of misery. More than ever a playwright who intends to woo his audience with some tale of woe will have to do it out of an intensely felt, intensively rendered personal experience...