Word: lured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Coutoumanos, marketing chief for BEI, says he devised the ad to lure readers away from pictures of glamorous products like aircraft carriers and jet fighters. Says he: "I just have a little rocket. I tried to think of a way to get people to read about...
...know how he kills turkeys?" Barney McHenry, one of Baker's oldest friends, had said. "He pays good money to have someone load his feeders with , corn so he can lure them in. Then he shoots them while they're standing on the ground eating. Some sport...
EDUCATION: The new lure of the classroom...
...follow-up flights. Said Thomas Paine, acting administrator of NASA in 1968: "We are at the onset of a program of space flights that will extend through many generations." Since then, there have been other triumphs and other disasters. Yet the wonder of that lunar vista has remained a lure and an accomplishment, a sign that amid riot, war and discontent, something was still worth striving...
...same time, Harvard is beginning to realize that its traditional ability to lure the best scholars from other universities is no longer sacrosanct. Although the University made several offers this fall, many of the scholars invited to teach at Harvard have still not responded and some are considering positions elsewhere...