Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attract attention to their plight, contingents of angry farmers went to Washington. They drove tractors up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. They set loose chickens and goats on Capitol Hill. They lobbied in the Capitol's halls, scaring a few citified Congressmen with their passionate pleas for federal aid. Finally, they got their bill to the floors of both congressional chambers...
...Ford Motor Company has granted $25,000 to Radcliffe College and will accept eight Radcliffe students for summer internships in an effort to attract women to careers in science and technology...
...Writes Schnapper: "One searches in vain for a lawyer disciplined for failing to give free legal assistance to the indigent, for failing to disclose legal precedent contrary to his client's interests, for misrepresenting facts to judges, juries or opposing counsel, or for using political office or connections to attract clients, although the frequency of these occurrences is common knowledge...
Rainmaker: law-firm partner who brings in business, sometimes because he has held high Government office. Among the most famous was Richard Nixon, who managed to attract Pepsi-Cola to the New York firm of Nixon, Mudge, Rose partly because as Vice President in 1959 he steered Nikita Khrushchev to the Pepsi kiosk in Moscow as photographers clicked away. Rainmakers can come up dry: ex-Attorney General Ramsey Clark did so much free pro bono work that he lost money for his former New York firm...
Three, the razor-thin margin of victory confirms President Giscard d'Estaing's intuition about the need above all to enlarge the Majority by a reformist course that would attract voters from the Left, and perhaps even the Socialist Party itself some day. But Chirac opposes this strategy, which, if it succeeded, would dilute Gaullist influence in the Majority; and while the Gaullists no longer dominate it, as they had since 1962, they still have just over half of its seats...