Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year the American consumer has been saving at an unprecedented rate of 7.3% of his income, and banks have tried to attract more deposits by offering gifts like appliances, luggage and wigs for women. The average American family has a fat $7,610 put away in savings accounts. Usually, a lot of money begins to burn a hole in the consumer's pocket, and a splurge of spending begins. But the usual consumer psychology may have changed. Last week George Katona, a consumer expert who heads the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, reported that the consumer...
...idea was tried and abandoned in California. Billboard cars were made and spotted around the state. Like signposts, they began to attract bullet holes. Inevitably, it happened: a passing motorist took a potshot at what he thought was a dummy and killed a patrolman...
...prices weren't enough to attract an audience, the performers and the program would be. The Chamber Players include some fine instrumentalists, among them flautist Doriot Anthony Dwyer, clarinetist Harold Wright, trumpeter Armando Ghitalla, and horn player James Stagliano. The programs, decided on co-operatively by the entire group, are diverse: this Sunday, the group will do a Rossini Quartet for Strings, Piston's Woodwind Quintet, and the Schubert Octet...
...present, he said, "We are still negotiating our scholarship budget." In general, however, Peterson said Harvard's policy is that "outright scholarship is better for anyone than a loan is" and that falling back on loans is a "second line of defense" for a university trying to attract students...
...campaign hopes that this shift toward the structure of the corporation will attract greater support from GM's institutional shareholders. "One special change isn't going to take us far. We are getting to the structure of the corporation and how this structure affects policy making," Esposito said...