Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Growing protectionist tendencies for finished goods in the United States and a rapidly increasing foreign debt have caused the Brazilian government to attract American firms to manufacture components for export and assembly elsewhere. The Ford Motor Company has decided to transfer its production of motors for Pinto models to Brazil in order to avoid high labor and tax costs in Britain, Alves pointed...
...There wasn't anything we could have done this season that we didn't do," Gambril said Monday. He is the first to admit that this year's team may pale by comparison with the team he will be able to attract to Harvard next year. If this year's freshmen stay out for the squad he may be right...
...overall grand champion of this year's prestigious National Western Stock Show in Denver was a gleaming 1,200-lb. Aberdeen Angus steer named Big Mac. His name alone was enough to attract the owners of a group of McDonald's hamburger franchises around Denver. They paid $14,250 for the black steer, planning to use him to promote the McDonald's superburger also known...
Colombian Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's only novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was a seismic literary event in Latin America when first published in 1967. Translated three years later, it received awestruck notices in the U.S., and has continued to attract not so much readers as proselytizers. The chronicle of an enchanted town called Macondo, it is a "good read" in the Dickensian sense: it has abundant life, a tangle of characters and plots, all supported by a clear moral viewpoint...
Graduate departments will be "less and less able" to use scholarship funds to attract students it particularly wants, Jones said yesterday...