Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Council members said that the project would appeal to a regional and metropolitan patronage, changing the focus of Porter Square businesses away from a more neighborhood oriented appeal. According to one resident, the influx of visitors to the area would make Porter Square a "jungle of cars and people...
...stumbling block in most diets. Other diet experts endorse the tactic but think losing three or four pounds a week is excessive. Says Dr. George Bray of the University of Southern California: "That's not a sustainable rate of healthy weight loss." Everyone applauds the diet's psychological appeal, however. Declares Katahn: "It motivates us to be as close to perfect as we can for three weeks." Agrees Housewife Pam Kennedy, who has shed 11 lbs. and one size since February: "For three weeks you can do anything...
...sister, Drummer Debbi Peterson, all in their mid-20s, have been compared to the Beatles, flatteringly but predictably. Anytime a band comes along that has an act full of fun, a songbook full of tunes with enough hooks to put in a tackle box and a sensual appeal that is insinuating and disarming at once, the Fab Four get trotted out like some handy musical yardstick for measuring progress and promise. No fair. The Bangles are a long way from Ticket to Ride, never mind In My Life. It is still early in the tour--their first as U.S. headliners...
...works of evangelizing, teaching and preaching. Eschewing the traditional monastic habit, they adopted the simple black cassock of the Anglican clergy, but kept to the monastic regime and took the traditional monastic vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. "We were just something new," says Father James Madden, explaining the appeal of the new order. The order came to Boston in the 1870s, and moved to Cambridge in the 1930s from downtown...
Wilson's intense desire to see General Huerta removed obviously led him to search for a suitable replacement. The most promising candidate he could find was one Venustiano Carranza and his band of "Constitutionalists." But they were consitutionalists in name only, as a clever ploy to appeal to Wilson. When they eventually gained power, they threw their democratic pretensions out the window and left Wilson with a regime even more despotic than the one he had seen overthrown...