Word: attract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Effective grantsmanship feeds on itself. "When you are doing good research, you attract talented people," says Ohio Researcher John B. Galipault. "You become known as a swinger, and good graduate students want to work for you-then you have to keep them challenged." Once a school has the manpower and equipment, the next grant comes easier. "The rich are getting richer and the poor are going nowhere," says Berkeley's Silver...
...funeral mask with its blaze of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise. Altogether, it is small wonder that in the first 20 days, some 180,000 Frenchmen have fought their way through the lines-ironically, ignoring the nearby Louvre's permanent display of 4,000 Egyptian objects, which attract no more than a few dozen foreign tourists...
...atom bombs for India and a harder line with Moslem Pakistan and Communist China. Jana Sangh and Swatantra share one goal that may be very beneficial for India: they want to dismantle the country's stifling socialistic bureaucracy and adopt a form of free enterprise that would attract needed foreign investment. In a limited way, Swatantra will get a chance, since it will head a coalition government in the eastern state of Orissa...
...last year to cover increased costs and higher taxes, is now replenishing his bank account. Personal saving rose in the fourth quarter of 1966 to $30.4 billion, or 5.9% of disposable income, and is now running at an even higher rate of 7% . Last week, in an effort to attract some of these funds, President Johnson and Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler launched a campaign to sell "Freedom Shares." To be sold only to people who buy regular Government bonds, the new notes will mature in 4½ years and pay 4.74% v. 4.15% and 7 years for a Series...
...major goal of those who drafted the proposal is not so much to change the character of the "honoraries" as to attract more members to the non-honorary societies--those which choose their members largely on the basis of interest...