Word: attract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march and a boycott of Schenley products sold in the Boston area was organized by a number of student and ethnic groups in an effort to attract national attention to the strike...
Some companies are considering waiving mandatory retirement for workers with good records; others seek to attract moonlighters by offering wages 10% to 12% above normal for night shifts. The Atlanta post office has been hiring women to load trucks and trundle small mail carts around the downtown district; in Pittsburgh, Westinghouse has moved women into machine-shop and stockroom jobs normally held by men. Many companies profess that a return to the days of Rosie the Riveter is not far away...
...legal 41% ceiling on new issues of Government bonds. What irks some critics even more is that FNMA, in effect, had to sell the certificates at a loss. The pool of old, low-rate mortgages on which the participations are based brings the agency-only a 4.78% return. To attract investors at all, FNMA had to make up the difference between that and today's higher level of interest rates. That cost, $5,100,000 a year, amounts to a subsidy in support of Johnson's budget ledgerdemain...
...ingenue of innocence and insight. But it is Madhur Jaffrey as the film star who dances away with the show. Pale and supple as an ibis, she slithers through the film like an erotic ivory temple carving come to life, the embodiment of an India that continues to attract the Western visitor without giving any of itself away...
...consolation to Moles and his obviously devoted translator, it may be admitted that, when the original French edition appeared in 1958, it was quite fashionable to dash cybernetically about. After a sufficiently loud and long obeisance to information theory (sufficiently loud and long to attract financial support and publication), it seemed not to matter what profit came from applying Shannon's H-formula to any kind of relative frequencies, real or imaginary. It was no fault of Shannon's that, by the end of the Fabulous Fifties, the H of his formula stood most often for Hooey...