Word: attract
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Inexorable Progress. Banfield believes that American cities are turning out a relatively humane citizenry−and an increasingly wealthier one. It has been the traditional function of the city, in fact, to attract the rural poor, both from the U.S. and abroad, and to provide them with better jobs and a better life. This process is not always apparent; often it is accompanied by what seems to be an upsurge in human misery, as the poor crowd into low-cost housing in the center of the city. But inexorably, they move up the social scale and out into more pleasant...
...Midwood High, where Woody Allen was a contemporary. Then came Harvard and graduate school and the first of the flops. It was called Sing Muse, a spoof on the classics that Segal was teaching, and it was written as a Harvard house musical. It was good enough to attract an off-Broadway producer, but outside the congenial connnes of the academic atmosphere it lasted only 39 performances
...last February, recommended that pay scales for first-term officers and enlisted men be raised, on July 1, to typical civilian levels for men of the same age and with comparable skills. Estimating the cost of this step at $2.7 billion, the commission predicted that the pay raise would attract enough new volunteers during the year to make ending the draft possible on July 1, 1971, when the present draft law expires...
...situation. In its report, the commission considered the possible costs of forces of up to 3 million men. A force of that size would cost considerably more than a force of 2.5 million, the commission estimated, since additional volunteers above the 2.5 million level would become increasingly hard to attract...
...volunteer military would consist largely of the poor and the black the commission pointed out that even at present lattes of pay, these groups are already motivated to enlist in disproportionate numbers and that an army paying salaries comparable to those in civilian life would, in fact, attract somewhat more well-to-individuals who have less trouble now getting job in the civilian market. The commission estimated that the percentage of blacks in an all-volunteer army, although greater than their percentage of the population, would scarcely exceed their membership in a military retaining the draft...