Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to attract 500 Yale students and 250 students from other schools," Taft said...
According to William C. Allison of Wellesley Hills, general chairman, the Fair will attract 50,000 exhibitors, performers and spectators from eight states...
This legacy contributed to an almost insurmountable problem for U.S. National. Since the risky loans totaled about $80 million more than the sum in its capital account, the bank was forced to pay higher and higher interest rates to attract the large, short-term deposits that it needed to continue operations. In recent months, the bank's managers have been buying up money on the open market in sums of $100,000 or more from corporations, labor unions and private investors eager to make the quick profits that those extraordinarily high interest rates seemed to promise. But by September...
...years. The print order for the first issue was 300,000, but Hirsch is basing his ad rates on an initial paid circulation of 100,000. With 38 ad pages in the first issue, New Times has already won some support from advertisers. Its name talent is sure to attract reader interest. With a little experience in working together, New Times's colorful crew should throw some brighter parties in the future. -Before the first issue went to press, two writers whose names had figured prominently in Hirsch's promotional efforts defected noisily. Jack Newfield, an investigative reporter...
...there be any point to writing a spy thriller in extreme slow motion? That is the sort of paradox that could only attract a French novelist who has also worked in French cinema-a man, in fact, like Jorge Semprun, who was born in Madrid but has lived in France since 1939, where he has won literary prizes and has written screenplays for films including Costa-Gavras...