Word: attract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recruiting Harvard students to work for them, they are not exercising the rights of speech and free expression guaranteed them by the Constitution and the general principles of the University. Such organizations have goals and interests. They seek not just to express those goals and interests, but to attract men and women who will help attain them...
This year, admissions officials have been particularly zealous in seeking out Negro students-and no longer just those from middle-class homes. In their eagerness to attract Negroes from disadvantaged backgrounds, many schools have relaxed their admissions standards...
...rising enterpreneurs sought pledges of $20, and hoped to attract 900,000 buyers to meet the then $18 million asking price of the Yawkey estate. "There are a lot of fanatics around," Campbell explained, "and that is only one dollar from every man, woman and child in New England...
...must get good marks in opinion polls. He must defend an incumbent Administration's record with little of the leverage and perquisites that an incumbent President automatically enjoys. And, while capitalizing on the Administration's accomplishments, he must overcome the me-too image if he is to attract some of the disenchanted. Further, Humphrey will be a prisoner of events during the coming months. There are primary elections he cannot enter, peace negotiations that may or may not be successful, racial unrest that may subside or explode again...
...first bi-racial and black-controlled bank in New England; the Poor People's March on Washington, now planned for early May; and two programs sponsored by Business School students under the Business Assistance Project, involving fund-raising to assist black business in Roxbury and attempts to attract more businesses to Roxbury...