Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American Express's reservations system has hooked up its computer with the six national parks, which attract campers at a rate of 2.5 million each season, and the computer will sort everyone out, providing a guaranteed spot for a fee of $1.50 apiece. Clutching their printouts, campers will be able to drive past the SORRY-NO VACANCIES signs and the lines of disorganized tourists waiting vainly to get at the great, jampacked outdoors. "Eventually," says Acadia National Park Superintendent Keith Miller, "a mobile society has to face the need for certain restrictions on its mobility...
...Stuck off by itself in the desert between Tucson and the Mexican border, legendary and tiny (pop. 1,200) Tombstone, Ariz., has so little to attract a doctor that its people have been without local medical care for much of the past eight years. But now the community where Wyatt Earp shot it out with desperadoes is doctorless no longer. An osteopath named Patrick Lorey, 36, has decided to live in the town for at least seven years. Lorey's decision was not completely voluntary. Convicted last fall of selling amphetamines, Lorey could have been sent to prison...
...international free zone in the country drew an angry public outcry. The plan called for a financial district that would enact its own laws and regulate all banks and trusts in its area. Critics charged that the zone would become a pirates' sanctuary and attract shady operators from all over the world. Figueres' congressional opponents have been loudly castigating him for his close ties to Vesco, hoping to make the American financier's scandal-smirched background a political issue in the presidential election next February...
...renewal in Boston and Cambridge induces skepticism about the CRA's promises, especially since it previously pleaded that it could not find any light industry for Kendall Square. The Golden Triangle and the Quadrangle must be considered as a single unit, and the CRA must try harder to both attract new manufacturing concerns to Cambridge and relocate light industry from predominantly residential sections of the city, thus opening up space for desperately needed low-income housing...
First, because of management's and investment banks' control of stock, such resolutions never attract 50 per cent of the shareholders' votes -- a fact the churches clearly understand. The ACSR, in objecting to the committee's composition, was objecting to the details of a proposal meant to be considered in a far broader political context. Resolutions such as these are intended to raise issues -- in this case, to pressure Exxon to establish a responsible study group. Any study committee that management would voluntarily establish in response to such pressure would no doubt be more "balanced," in the ACSR's sense...