Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another SDS member. Ellen Messing '72 estimated that roughly two-thirds of the demonstrators favored a militant action but agreed on non-obstructive tactics to attract more picketers...
...image of the military profession, and the Navy was still under the cloud of the Pueblo affair. At Annapolis, Calvert found the engineering-oriented curriculum sadly outdated-symptomatic of the "cultural mismatch" between a hidebound service academy and the young men-black as well as white-he wanted to attract. Some black middies (there are now 38) are even jeered when they try to recruit others back home...
...time to give the Common back to the Citizens of Cambridge... Don't get me wrong-there are some good kids there, but it's the element they attract that disturbs the citizens of Cambridge," he said...
...much as one-quarter of 1%. As a result, corporate and municipal borrowers are likely to pay more for money in the bond market in the weeks ahead. Not even Bell's banker, Morgan Stanley, was sure that the 8¾% rate on such a large issue would attract enough investors. As a result, the company sweetened the package...
...Glyndwr, the last independent Prince of Wales. Sanders claims to be a descendant of Prince Owain, although he does not bother to offer any evidence of this. He is, says Sanders, a hereditary witch-as distinguished from the converts that Miss Johns' overly sympathetic biography obviously seeks to attract...