Word: appealing
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...that, although I am writing from a liberal, critical corner of the arena, I don't hate them--or at least, and more to the point, I certainly don't hate the guys who join them. I don't reproach them for their decision, because I definitely understand the appeal. I've often been almost glad I didn't have to face the dilemma myself (although here at the dawn of the age of Seneca, these days of exemption may be numbered); it's been tricky enough deciding whether or not to hang out at the clubs, which...
TIME: Will you appeal the findings of fact...
Buchanan deserves commendation for thinking boldly and exploring solutions ignored by other politicians. But they are all too backward looking. They appeal to an inchoate resentment and confusion, rather than articulate a positive plan for the future. Buchanan, like many others, looks back to the postwar years when many Americans could live a comfortable and stable life with a unionized blue collar job. He is right to recognize that many of the benefits of this life have been lost and to search for solutions. But instead of trying to bring the backward sectors of the economy into the phenomenal growth...
...collar workers amidst his occasionally outrageous statements and ineffective proposals. Buchanan has said that "the economy is not the country; the country comes first." This is an interesting idea, and it merits debate. But a worthwhile debate can exist only without extremism and must be based on proposals which appeal to hope and openmindedness, rather than emotion and resentment...
...Fitzsimmons says the program's appeal reaches beyond Harvard. He often uses it to entice potential students...