Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executives cite lack of awareness about the organization and its purposes among undergraduate women, along with difficulties with the election calendar, as reasons for the low number of candidates. They seem confident, however, that RUS can overcome these problems and attract more candidates next semester...
Harvard largely abandoned the use of instructors in the '60s when the University could not attract new Ph.D. holders to fill such a low rank...
...Fork River was to create new recreational facilities and water supplies, but the water is so contaminated by lead that it is unfit for swimming. Expensive treatment facilities would be required if it were to be used as drinking water for the boaters and fishermen it was designed to attract...
...there can spread out their possessions or stretch out for a nap. On transatlantic flights full-fare passengers will also get an unlimited number of free drinks, as well as free movie headsets. Other airlines are courting these bread-and-butter customers in different ways. Some are trying to attract more of them into first class by cutting the cost of those fares by nearly 8%, making first class only 20% more expensive than coach as of mid-November...
...industry. They must earn at least as much next year as they will in 1978 in order to finance the new planes that they will need in the 1980s. Increasing fares, the most obvious answer, could prove politically difficult. So, to hold their 1979 earnings up, the airlines must attract as many as 30 million new passengers next year, on top of the 280 million (a 40 million annual gain) they are expected to carry in 1978. Thus the lines have a problem: while they must avoid further strains on their hard-pressed facilities, they must also continue to lure...