Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there can be a better place to go. The collective brain-power which these persons represent could be a formidable basis for a third university in Cambridge and for new universities around the country. The student body which such a university would attract is equally impressive. The type of student who does not worry about professional accreditation is specifically the type that Orthogonal U. would welcome...
...Black Madonna, who preaches that Jesus was literally black, has announced that he is founding a "Black Christian Nationalist Movement" that will have its first "national convention" in Detroit this week. Cleage, who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the National Council of Churches last December, also expects to attract black Jews,* sunni Muslims and even atheists to his "black liberation" movement...
...meals. Stateside newspapers are sold for 30? and a package of Life Savers for 25?. Some hotels have a one dollar extra daily charge simply for having a phone in the room. Despite dwindling revenues, most hotel owners refuse to lower prices, figuring that it is too late to attract new business...
...toward dealing with a large number of transients. Because Cambridge is bounded on all sides by college and university communities- M.I.T., B.U., Tufts, and Harvard- there is an inordinate amount of movement in and out of the city. The situation is complicated because large centers of student activity invariably attract outside groups and hangers...
...catalogue as a half course extending throughout the year. The course can be taken for credit only for two years. And naturally it will accept an unlimited number of auditors. In one way this will recognize the five hours per week that members give to the orchestra and will attract more people. In another way this is recognizing the value of practical musical experience and the fact that music was written to be performed and not just studied...