Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return in six weeks, when the Jarring talks should be in better focus. The Suez Canal Co. has ordered a $2,400,000 Dutch dredger that could deepen the canal for 250,000-ton supertankers whenever it is reopened. Egypt has begun a new tourism campaign, and wants to attract Americans. The government has even dropped hints that it is considering the resumption of diplomatic relations with Washington, which were broken when the Six-Day War began. That may take some time, but one American tourist who may be arriving soon is Secretary of State William P. Rogers...
...children called Big. A year later they started Men, a vulgar weekly collection on newsprint of photographs of nude women often purchased from Scandinavia-or provided by the agents of Italian starlets. Playmen was started in 1967, and looked enough like Playboy, which was then banned in Italy, to attract buyers. Except for the European style of its nudes and a blessed absence of Hefnerian philosophizing. Playmen still bears an outward resemblance to its U.S. forebear. Its centerpiece Girl of the Month folds out. while all about her lie layers of fiction, more-or-less serious articles and satellite layouts...
...remain a rarity in a profession for which they are eminently qualified-medicine. Only 21,000, or 7%, of the country's 300,000 doctors are female. Though the U.S. needs at least 50,000 new doctors to meet current needs, little has been done until recently to attract more women into medicine...
...cigarettes will be speeded to them along with other product samples by United Parcel Service. Other companies have already begun mass samplings through the mail. Some firms are giving away free samples on the streets, at sporting events and wherever crowds gather. Reynolds has started the Salem Sweepstakes to attract new customers. Participants send contest forms and two Salem packages to the company, which draws the names of the winners. First prize: five two-week vacations for two anywhere in the world, plus $1,000 spending money for each trip...
...Wells started the craze in Britain with Little Wars, a 1913 book codifying the rules of toy battles that he and his friends fought out near his country home. Many of today's rule books draw heavily on Wells' work, devised, as he put it, to attract "boys of every age and girls of the better sort." With deadly seriousness, Prussian officers originally developed the idea in the mid-19th century to hone their tactical skills for actual warfare. Today, of course, professional war-gamers play out their grim battles in locked rooms in Washington and Moscow...