Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Double Up. Ford and Chevrolet are the biggest sellers of pickup trucks. To attract young truck buyers, particularly West Coast surfers, Ford recently began importing a compact-styled pickup from Japan; Chevy will soon do the same...
...irony is that Eros and the other Ginzburg offerings of nine years ago now appear tame. Today they would be unlikely to attract either the law's wrath or the public's attention...
...government has also budgeted $7 billion over the next three years for public works, notably the Transamazonian Highway, part of a 9,000-mile network that aims to open up the largely uninhabited interior. In the hardscrabble northeast, it is about to pour in $800 million to help attract industry. Rio's favelas, the infamous slums that once contained 950,000 of the city's residents, now house about 450,000; the last favela is scheduled for demolition within the next five years, and the favelados are being moved to cheap government-built housing far from the center...
...Berrigan case has managed to attract some attention to Harrisburg. The main drawing card is the dynamic Father Phil, who is brought to court every day from the Dauphin County Prison. One night recently a crowd of youngsters staged a vigil outside the jail, singing Peace My Friend and Hear O Lord the Sound of My Call, accompanied by two girls playing guitars. Berrigan supporters are hoping that college spring vacations will bring fresh battalions of the young to the siege of Harrisburg...
Equally important, however, has been Norris' penchant to spend money faster than CDC could earn it. Norris, a 60-year-old former Univac general manager, has been determined not to pinch pennies in his drive to challenge IBM. Last year, in order to attract more business, he built six data centers at a cost of $10 million each. When financial aides advised him to build only one center at a time, Norris branded their counsel "chicken-hearted." He has maintained an inventory of more than $300 million worth of computers and peripherals, about twice what the company...