Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That deficiency developed over a long period during which recruitment failed to attract enough wrestlers at 118 and 126 and it was heightened on the Tuesday before the Wesleyan meet when senior Bruce Goodman quit the team...
...former law firm, Paul O'Dwyer, the unsuccessful 1968 candidate and brother of New York City's late mayor, and Congressman Richard Ottinger, a three-term Westchester liberal. The seat is now held by Republican Charles Goodell, a former Congressman who has been trying to attract a liberal, antiwar constituency. He may now be challenged for his party's nomination...
...well account for some of the impressive results that N.A. claims. The organization defines the neurotic as "any person whose emotions interfere with his functioning in any way to any degree whatsoever as recognized by him" -a definition unscientific enough to horrify formal psychotherapists. Hence the program tends to attract people who want to believe that emotional problems are as correctable as a toothache-a comparison frequently drawn by N.A. members. "You have to keep going back to the dentist if you want to take good care of your teeth," says Grover. No one "graduates" from N.A., he adds...
Senior faculty members like Inkeles, Ezra F. Vogel, and Seymour Martin Lipset have been clamoring for an independent sociology department for several years. Such a department, they say, would attract sociologists to Harvard and would make it easier for sociologists to work with people in other disciplines...
...direction of Peace Corps officials, Keye and his partners, Art Director Mario Donna and Media Specialist Len Pearlstein, are at work on a new campaign aimed less at college idealists and more at mature craftsmen. (The corps has no age limit.) "The need now is to attract middle-class working America," says Keye. Accordingly, one ad in the agency's proposed new campaign proclaims, "The Peace Corps is looking for people who can speak two languages-American and plumbing." Another ad, aimed at Negro newspapers, says, "If the Peace Corps is lily white, it's your fault...