Word: attract
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...would have retired to Cambridge as a relatively young man after serving another term in the White House, setting up an office in the same building where his books and papers were to be stored. He would teach at Harvard and be readily accessible to students. His presence would attract scholars from all over the world. And so it was going to be a pretty lively enterprise, plenty of people, constant activity. Then he died...
WHAT WILL PROBABLY attract you the most about Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us are the surfaces of things, the lyric Mississippi atmosphere, the rural details, the moods and faces. These are only incidentals in a lot of films, but here they are pleasant enough to be the most important things, and also to remind us that the best function of art is often not that of probing "depths" but of making us understand and love shallow things, things of the surface...
...Mitterrand, in the two remaining weeks of the campaign, can attract enough backing from left-wing Gaullists or centrists to give him more than 50% of the total, he will become France's new President. If not, he will face the candidate with the second highest vote in a runoff on May 19. At present, Mitterrand's support probably represents the hard-core vote he will get from the dedicated left: about 20% coming from the Communists, a bit more than that from the Socialists. His problem-which has faced every leftist leader in modern French history...
Just as rowdy, and considerably less interesting is the Oxford Ale House, on Church St., just around the corner from the Coop. This place seems to attract a lot of townies, but maybe some of those people are freshmen (it is close to the Yard) and I can't tell the difference. It is routine to be carded here, at least on weekends. This place provides live entertainment, beer and more potent alcohol, and little else. There is no atmosphere, only noise, and the only interesting thing I ever saw there was this girl who looked utterly miserable...
...startling rise in interest rates has left big bond-underwriting houses with huge, expensive inventories that they cannot sell profitably. The brokers stocked up on bonds, expecting to make a profit as yields dropped and prices rose. Instead, as soaring short-term rates attracted ever more investors, yields on bonds, too, have had to be boosted substantially-and even then have not been high enough in some cases to attract buyers. The situation has become so grim that one of Wall Street's most venerable investment bankers, Lehman Bros., announced last month that it would sharply reduce its bond...