Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approached: to secure maximum committee support for any articles of impeachment that would be recommended to the House. He knew that there was no hope of enlisting about ten Republicans firmly committed to Nixon's defense, but he hoped that articles could be drawn in a way that would attract the remaining Republicans, all troubled by some of Nixon's Watergate-related actions. Yet he also had the problem of not limiting the charges against the President so narrowly that the more liberal Democrats would insist on toughening the language or adding more articles. Rodino was worried too about some...
Unable to attract the independent "antipolitician" voters he sought, "Westy" lost by more than 5,000 votes to Archconservative State Senator James B. Edwards, 47, a Charleston dentist with a hard-core right-wing following...
Needless to say, that is not always the case. It's hard to spot all instances of direct hiring; to do so the University would have to keep tabs on every secretarial and clerical appointment, a massive job. But the more important non-teaching appointments attract public scrutiny anyway, so direct hiring violations in the appointment of deans and directors are easy to keep track...
Charlie runs two places in the Square: Charlie's Place (1 Bow St.) and Charlie's Kitchen (10 Eliot St.). Both attract a lot of high school kids out on their first drinking flings. But Charlie's Kitchen has probably the best bar food in the Square. Upstairs there is always room for groups of seven to ten people and the food is definitely a cut above greasy spoon quality...
...LISTENERS. Performing groups that attract this crowd include the Moody Blues, Yes, Weather Report and The Eleventh House. The music is predominately classical or jazz rock. The listeners tend to be Heavy Metal graduates-youths ranging in age into the early 20s, who know and care about musicianship. Sedated by grass, Seconals and Quaaludes, they tend to applaud rather than scream their approval...