Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DEMOCRATS. In the 1960s party liberals fought to get on the Judiciary Committee because it was a focal point of civil rights activism. The last great civil rights bill, open housing, came before the committee in 1966, but the body continued to attract young, feisty and ambitious liberals as it dealt with matters of criminal justice, women's rights and the presidential succession; most recently, it handled the nomination of Gerald Ford as Vice President...
...Combat Zone must be replaced by something, why not by the Kennedy Library? Judging by the popularity of other Presidential Libraries, a JFK Memorial would attract tourists enough to revitalize downtown Boston. It seems clear that citizens of Cambridge don't want these tourists...
...attract applicants, the dean is offering a variety of incentives. Von Stade said volunteers will "hopefully" receive single bedrooms, be entitled to remain in their present suites and be guaranteed one of their six choices for an upperclass House. By Friday morning ten students had expressed interest in the plan...
Careful Screening. Though the first modern medically supervised sex-change operation took place in Europe in 1930, transexual surgery did not attract wide notice until the transformation of a former G.I. named George Jorgensen to Christine* in 1952. In 1966 Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore opened its Gender Identity Clinic, having the year before performed its first complete transexual operation. University hospitals at Minnesota, Stanford, Northwestern, Arkansas, Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia and a few others soon followed suit...
Bookies' Vigorish. For every one of them, the crucial number is the point spread. Bets on most other sports are based on traditional odds. Football books always quote a point spread designed to be large enough to attract some bettors to the underdog, yet tight enough to be a hedge for the bookies if the favorite has had a bad day. For the Super Bowl, Dolphin fans who put down their bets early will collect only if their team wins by six points or more. A Viking bet will pay off if Minnesota manages to lose by fewer than...