Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ohta's bedroom they found a valuable tape recorder, cameras and more jewelry. There was no sign of a struggle, and all the bodies were neatly dressed. Stacks of kindling were also discovered in the house, indicating that the fire had been deliberately set by the killer to attract attention. Said Kenneth Pittenger, deputy sheriff of Santa Cruz County, where Soquel is located: "It was like an execution...
...pocket to supplement the pay of a dozen state officials, although the Arkansas attorney general told him it was unconstitutional. Newark's Mayor Kenneth Gibson has persuaded local businessmen to add $2,500 a year to the city business administrator's $35,000 salary in order to attract a top outside professional to the job. Now the mayor of Honolulu, Frank Fasi, has offered $40,000 from his campaign war chest to help fend off a strike of Teamster drivers that would have halted two privately owned Oahu bus lines. The union accepted Fasi's "very attractive...
...hustle became evident last May when Gerald Trautman, chairman of Greyhound Corp., the conglomerate that owns the bus company, named the line's new president: James L. Kerrigan, who had joined the firm at 17 as a clerk. Kerrigan, the father of seven children, is eager to attract more young passengers. As part of this drive, Greyhound sponsored a concert tour by Rock Singer Mason Williams, part of which was made into a NET television show. The company has begun direct service linking a dozen colleges with major cities and has hired student representatives on campus to promote Greyhound...
Patricia Barry, another White worker, said that student volunteers are difficult to attract this year because of widespread disenchantment with electoral politics on college campuses. "We need several thousand students to work on Election Day and we hope to attract a lot by this event tonight," she said...
...cost of making the Army attractive to enough volunteers? Possibly an extra $8 billion a year, according to Laird's rough guess. Thus there remains a serious question as to whether a volunteer Army would attract enough manpower to back up the U.S.'s worldwide commitments. Why is it being pushed so hard right now? Asked if the timing were political, Melvin Laird could not suppress a smile. "I don't know how you came to that conclusion," he replied...