Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Criteria for admissions to the program focuses on the research potential and research interest of each candidate. However, the Human Development Program has failed to attract minority students with high enough qualifications, Duehay said. A spokesman for the students at the meeting charged that the Program follows "blatantly racist practices" which are reflected in admissions policies, research conducted and programs produced...
Initially, the objective is to attract live crowds as proof of track's commercial appeal. To please fans, the I.T.A.'s eleven-page operations manual frankly encourages troupe members to ham it up: "Wave during introductions, smile, turn to all sides of the arena and acknowledge the applause. Many U.S. athletes act glum as if they are about to be shot in the next minute." Matson, the world record holder (71 ft. 5½ in.) in the shotput, but a rather colorless performer, recognizes the problem. "If everyone was like me," he says, "nobody would come...
...archaeological sites, of which only a fraction have been excavated by trained and government-sanctioned archaeological teams. The rest are simply raped. Even the official digs are ill-protected by a skeleton force of guards, who are paid an average $50 per month-not a salary likely to attract qualified men capable of thwarting organized robbers like the trio who, in 1968, broke into the Izmir Fair Archaeological Museum, rifled its collection of antique Aegean jewelry, vases and marble carvings, and crushed the watchman's skull with a stolen statue as they departed...
Dershowitz said that the current methadone rehabilitation programs have not proved successful in reducing addiction because they fail to attract addicts...
Ebert spoke at a luncheon sponsored by the Med School to attract financial support for the Roxbury Medical Technical Institute (RMTI), an educational and social service organization...