Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to attract new income and jobs to the state, Muskie formed the Industrial Development Agency, which in subsequent years has become a villain to environmentalists. Otherwise, he earned a reputation as a progressive Governor and rapidly became the state's most popular personality. In 1958, after two terms in the Governor's mansion, Muskie ran for the Senate against the incumbent, Frederick Payne, who had had the bad luck to be involved in the Bernard Goldfine scandal...
McKay and Espinosa are persuaded that the island can attract even more business than Juarez did at its apogee. What they need, they say, is proper promotion, and the Dominican Republic has already snared its first celebrity. Actor Elliott Gould flashed through the court last month to dissolve his marriage to Barbra Streisand. "I don't want to knock Mexico," says Espinosa, "but the system had become too mechanical." When he leads his flock into the marbled courthouse, Espinosa carefully points out the crucifix in the court signifying, he says, "the presence...
...using Schönefeld, Swissair concluded that it could not compete there profitably. For the same reason, Austrian Airlines, which has a mutual landing agreement that permits it to operate out of Schönefeld, does not make use of the privilege. If East Germany really intends to attract Western airlines, it will have to raise Interflug's subsidized fares on competing routes, and that in turn might well make Schönefeld less attractive to travelers. But even the highly preliminary talks held so far suggest that Tempelhof and the three Western powers are not likely...
...Solution. As the bugs now metamorphose from engorged caterpillars to egg-laying moths, federal and state agencies are stepping up efforts to stop the pests "Spread."Inspectors face the thankless task of searching campers and trailers for gypsy moth eggs. Scientists hope to put out synthetic sex lures that attract libidinous male moths to traps and doom. When the lures were tested in Mississippi, says William H. Gillespie, chairman of the National Gypsy Moth Advisory Council in Charleston, W. Va., "all the male moths did was fly around and frustrate themselves. They never did find any gals to procreate with...
...Atlantic (though the line ran $29.5 million in the red on that route last year, largely because of the recession).* Even lines that do not make much money over the North Atlantic, including Aeroflot, Air-India and Finnair, cling to the route in order to fly their flags and attract foreign travelers to their countries...