Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most serious of them is Jean Royer, 53, the independent mayor of Tours, who has become the darling of France's petite bourgeoisie by campaigning against pornography and sponsoring laws to protect the small businessman from the competition of big stores. Because he might be able to attract the support of France's 570,000 small shopkeepers, he could cut deeply into the potential first-ballot strength of both Chaban and Giscard. Nonetheless, there was little doubt that the real race involved the leftist front runner and the two men competing...
Theoretically, then, this somnolent sport should appeal to no one over the mental age of twelve. Instead, fishing continues to attract business leaders, politicians, intellectuals and writers to an extraordinary degree. What has hooked them...
...taxidermist spent quite some time looking for the Sasquatch in Canada, supported by an American millionaire. He used an original approach. He would snatch used sanitary napkins from women's bathrooms at gas stations, then run through the woods tacking them to trees in hopes they would attract a Sasquatch. If our mountain snowman when discovered really is abominable, he will have no trouble assimilating the traits of our society...
...corporations, including Exxon, Coca-Cola (both represented by Pappas), Dow Chemical and Alcoa, are exempt from a variety of taxes and duties. This is specified in the Greek constitution. Trade unions have been scrapped or stripped of power by the government, in order to maintain the low wages that attract foreign monopolists. Such economic tactics have driven about 250,000 workers to seek jobs in West Germany...
This new textbook-style Expos program probably won't accomplish much besides making Expos drudgery for its students next year. And it's unlikely that the standardized program will attract teachers with imagination and independence...