Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From its peak in 1969, when sales totaled $28 million, the firm slid deeper into trouble until its creditors forced it into reorganization. Only last week did the big flagship Manhattan store attract the kind of crowds it had needed to survive. Thousands flocked to its doors, some to hunt bargains in the terminal close-out sale, others just to be there before lights in the paneled rooms went out for good. As the incongruously jaunty sales ads put it, "Well, Ezra, all good things must come...
Harvard still plays basketball four flights up the stairs of the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB). The freshman rule still prevents freshmen from playing on the varsity team, and coaches still cannot leave the campus to recruit players. No enticing offers of a new Porsche attract 7-ft. basketball wizards to Harvard...
Just where the team is heading remains unclear. If they continue to win they will attract attention and consider a move up in class to Formula Vee, or, if they can afford it, they might attempt to race in European Formula Three. "Five years ago every up-and-coming road racer wanted to go to Europe, but now the important thing is to do as well as you can, wherever you are," Medenica says...
...order to help stem the tide of imports. The cost of many foreign goods is expected to jump by a prohibitive 45% or more. On the less painful side, the government hopes its measures will stimulate local industry to manufacture previously imported goods, find new markets for exports and attract overseas investment. The Begin regime is also quietly counting on another blessing from a reduced balance of payments deficit: Israel could become less dependent...
...stumbling enterprise has done: changed its name. The N.P.P. will henceforth-at least on an experimental basis in some states-be known as the National Statesmen Party. Whether the name change will hoist the party out of the category of political oddity is doubtful, but at least it may attract a few of the folks who take a drop now and then...