Word: attract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loser in Baden-Württemberg was West Germany's Social Democratic Party, which has suffered nothing but setbacks in state elections ever since it joined the Christian Democrats in the 17-month-old coalition. The protest vote that the Social Democrats, as the opposition, used to attract now seems largely to go to the National Democrats; in Baden-Württemberg, the Socialists dropped from 37.3% of the vote in 1964 to 29% last week, which meant the loss of ten seats. Disappointed at the loss of their old image as a tough, independent-minded party, the Socialists...
...restore his momentum, as he hopes to do in the primaries. Humphrey can only resort to more tenuous tactics. He must fight for his share of attention, but not campaign so combatively as to belie his banner as the unity candidate. He must also extend an olive branch to attract some of McCarthy's delegates if the opportunity arises...
Company Man. Humphrey must also construct an efficient campaign organization. His personal staff consists mostly of Minnesotans with little expertise in national politics. He tried to attract Lawrence O'Brien, but lost him to Kennedy; there is no Humphrey cadre of veteran organizers to match Kennedy's. Humphrey himself, although he was a leading architect of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in the 1940s, has never been considered a particularly astute tactician on the national level. In 1956, he openly sought the vice-presidential nomination, ran a humiliating third behind Estes Kefauver and John Kennedy. In 1960, Kennedy...
...suggest that money now going to new buildings be used instead for such purposes as enlarging the scholarship fund and granting subsidies to those who want to live off-off campus. We especially feel that funds should be used to attract and support students who without extensive financial aid would be unable to afford a Radcliffe education...
...salary or benefits, if it can't offer him a personal challenge and the freedom of action to accept and master this challenge within the frame-work of his job, he is not going to go into business as a career. If the business community really wishes to attract the best young men from the liberal arts colleges it must begin to pay them in intangibles as well as with money, pension plans, and memberships in the company country club. Able young men must be paid with the intangible currency of responsibility, of freedom, and of the chance to make...