Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western U.S., where gasoline is still relatively plentiful, winter resorts are generally still busy. But in the Northeast, about two-thirds of the ski areas are reporting smaller crowds. Many operators have been able to attract the ski ers they do get only by buying gas stations or promising to fill the visitors' tanks once they arrive. In Vermont, where skiing is the largest industry, statewide unemployment has risen to 7%. Only 25 people were on the payroll two weeks ago at Glen Ellen-down from 125 a year earlier...
Wherever a stop is out of a secretary's line of sight, the robot sounds a chime or blinks a light to attract her attention...
This much is gleaned from heresay, for the manager has disappeared and the help has been overhauled. In a place as ragged and permissive as Ann Arbor the affair was not one to attract notice, and no one knows who might have known Kimberly Rath in these last months. It is difficult to picture Kimberly, the daredevil mischief maker, the enthusaiast and extremist, the wild child living high and happy with a madness holed up in this middle-aged hideaway. Perhaps she needs this, a steady straight place, that could impose a predictable order on her days and restore...
...Stade attributed the tremendous response to the "fringe benefits" offered to attract volunteers. Von Stade has promised volunteers single bedrooms, one of their first six hall choices, and the opportunity to live in an all sophomore entry...
Sadat wants to attract not only Western capital but also the oil money flowing into the Arab world in rapidly increasing amounts. Foreign capital is being enticed by such moves as Sadat's recent decision to sign a World Bank agreement that protects foreign investors against losses from nationalization. Plans have been drawn up to turn Port Said into a free-trade zone and make it "the Hong Kong of the West." Cairenes, accustomed to seeing photographs of their President posing with visiting Arab and Soviet politicians, were astonished last week to see him greeting Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman...