Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rumblings of growing political power were loud enough to attract the Democrat with the keenest sense of grass-root organization, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Although Jackson, as director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, has been one of Daley's most outspoken critics, the mayor was on hand to help open Black Expo. Awkwardly clasping Jackson's hand in a "soul handshake," Daley forced a smile for the television cameras, then toured the exhibits. His presence testified to the political and economic clout that Black Expo had been set up to evoke...
...lagged behind that of workers performing the same job in another company be permitted an exceptionally high wage boost? Should a company that has been unable to fill low-wage jobs get an exemption from the guidelines so that it can offer whatever pay raises are needed to attract workers? The Administration is prepared to make exceptions for the sake of equity, but there will be considerable confusion...
...estimates of loss may be open to question, because the low fares will attract more passengers. But even officials of Lufthansa, which is 74% owned by the West German government, admitted last week that the company will lose $24 million on the North Atlantic this year; some airline men say the line may continue to lose next year, despite the new fares. Lufthansa had introduced the fares because its executives feared that the alternative, a fare package worked out by IATA members last summer, would be difficult to administer...
...autonomy of the Houses in the educational process, "especially in the field of independent study, tutorials, and House seminars." He also suggested that "perhaps our Houses have grown too uniform" and that they might be allowed to decide for themselves questions of resource allocation and "whether they wish to attract particular types of students and faculty interested in particular types of things...
...America. Quote boards were recently installed in the cocktail lounge of the Four Seasons hotel in Toronto and in the lobby of a new office building in Washington's Watergate complex, a development where many Administration officials live. The board was put in by the Watergate management to attract brokerage-house tenants, but they are few. On one recent day, the only tape watchers were two caged red parrots that ate sunflower seeds and squawked as they observed the quotations...